James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
THE RIVET IN GRANDFATHER'S NECK: A Comedy of Limitations
Hall Code |
Description |
Riv-D2 |
Governors' Edition 1932 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [wide spaced double rule] | [in red italic] | The Rivet in | Grandfather's Neck | A Comedy of Limitations | [rule] BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [Kalki device] | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | NEW YORK · · · · MCMXXIX | [rule] (see image above).
Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1915, 1929, BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [rule] | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1932
Collation:
Crown octavo [19.4 cm. (7⅝ in.) x 13.5 cm. (5 5/16 in.)]; xxvi + 320 pp.; (i) half-title, STORISENDE EDITION · XIV; (ii) toast to Virginia; (iii) presentation (verso blank); (v) dedication (verso blank); (vii)-(xvii) [ix]-[xix] AUTHOR'S NOTE (signed by the author, verso blank); (xix)-(xxii) [xxi]-[xxiv] CONTENTS; (xxiii)-(xxiv) [xxv]-[xxvi] Introduction, as by Richard Fentnor Harrowby; (1) fly-title PART ONE; (2) quotation; 3-319 text (verso blank). Pages (1), (31), (59), (89), (135), (161), (205), (235), (275), and (305) are fly-titles. Pages (iv), (vi), (xviii), (160), (234), and (320) are blank.
Note: Beginning with page (vii), which is numbered as p. [ix], the preliminary pages are paginated incorrectly. This is because they were originally numbered for the Storisende Edition. In this collation, the correct pagination for the prelims is given in (parentheses), while the numeration as printed is given in [brackets].
Binding:
Quarter bound with white buckram spine, blue buckram boards, separated by 3/16-inch wide red vertical strip; gilt lettering and decorations on spine and front cover; all edges trimmed, top stained blue. Spine: THE RIVET | IN | GRANDFATHER'S | NECK | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | McBRIDE. Front cover: [Seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia, centered] (see image above).
Presentation:
[in Mr. Cabell's hand] Hon. J. E. Erickson | [in italic] This book is an especially limited edition | of fifty-five copies, prepared by the Com- | monwealth of Virginia for the Governors of | the States of the American Union, as | presented to them on the occasion of the | twenty-fourth annual Governors' Confer- | ence, held in Richmond, Virginia, April | 25-28, 1932, and bound with the compli- | ments of L. H. Jenkins, Inc., Edition | Book Manufacturers, Richmond, Virginia | [signed by the author] (see image above).
Note: John E. Erickson (1863-1946) was Governor of Montana from 1925 to 1933.
Dedication:
[in italic] To | PRISCILLA BRADLEY CABELL | [14-line dedicatory verse in two stanzas] (see image above).
Dust jacket:
None seen.
Notes:
One of three titles issued in matching bindings for the 1932 Annual Governors' Conference, this issue was bound from sheets of the Storisende Edition, Riv-D1 (S).
