James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
SMITH: A Sylvan Interlude
Hall Code |
Description |
SMH-A1a |
First Printing, Limited Edition 1935 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: SMITH | A Sylvan Interlude | BY BRANCH CABELL | [in italic] "To look at the man is but to court deception | . . . for no man lives in the external truth, | among salts and acids, but in the warm, phan- | tasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the | painted windows and the storied walls." | NEW YORK : MCMXXXV | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY (see image above).
Title page verso: SMITH | COPYRIGHT, 1935 | BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES | OF AMERICA | FIRST EDITION (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1935
Collation:
Crown octavo [20.5 cm. (8 1/16 in.) x 14.6 cm. (5¾ in.)]; x + 314 pp.; (i) half-title; (ii) by Branch Cabell (list of books); (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (not counted in pagination) limitation leaf; (v) dedication (verso blank); vii-ix Contents (verso blank); (1) fly-title PART ONE; (2) quotation; 3-313 text (verso blank). Pages (1), (47), (115), (193), (241), and (299) are fly-titles.
Binding:
Black cloth, silver lettering and decorations on front cover and spine; top edge trimmed, else untrimmed. Spine: * | SMITH | * * | BRANCH | CABELL | * | McBRIDE. Front cover: [Kalki device in lower right] (see image above).
Limitation:
OF THE FIRST EDITION OF SMITH 153 COPIES | (OF WHICH 120 ARE FOR SALE) HAVE BEEN | NUMBERED, AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. THIS | IS COPY NUMBER [handwritten in red] 83 | [author's signature] (see image above).
Dedication:
For | JOHN LOTTIER CABELL | [17-line acrostic verse in 3 unequal stanzas] (see image above).
Dust jacket / Slipcase:
Issued in unmarked issue dust jacket and cardboard slipcase covered in silver paper, Cabell family coat of arms on front panel (see image above).
