Full Title:

Title page recto: THE RIVET | IN GRANDFATHER'S | NECK | A Comedy of Limitations | by | JAMES BRANCH CABELL |  [in italic] "To this new South, who values her high | past, in chief, as fit foundation of that edifice | whereon she labors day by day, and with | augmenting strokes." | NEW YORK | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | 1924 (see image above).

Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL |  [in italic] Sixth Printing, January, 1924 | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | [rule] | Published October, 1915 (see image above).

Publication:

New York: Robert M. McBride & Co.; January, 1924

Collation:

Crown octavo [20 cm. (7⅝-inches) x 14 cm. (5½-inches)]; 368 (first 12 un-numbered); (1) half-title; (2) Books by Mr. Cabell; (3) title page; (4) publication data; (5) dedication (verso blank); (7) CONTENTS (verso blank); (9) excerpt from "The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep" (verso blank); (11) fly-title; (12) uncredited sonnet*; 13-368 text. Pp. (11), (45), (79), (115), (163), (191), (241), (273), (319), and (353) are fly-titles. Pp. (6), (8), (10), (78), (114), (240), and (272) are blank.

*Prior to the fifth printing (1922), this sonnet was credited as Nascitur, by Paul Verville (pseud. of JBC)

Binding:

Kalki binding: red brick cloth; gilt lettering and decorations on spine and front cover; top edge trimmed, else untrimmed. Spine: THE RIVET | IN | GRAND- | FATHER'S | NECK | [rule] | CABELL | McBRIDE. Front cover: [Kalki device in lower right corner] (see image above).

Dedication:

TO | PRISCILLA BRADLEY CABELL | [14 line dedicatory verse in two stanzas] (see image above).

Notes:

The quotation on the title page was adapted from"The New Virginia," by James Branch Cabell, originally published in Julia Wyatt Bullard's Jamestown Tributes and Toasts, 1907, Hall A2.