Cabell's Contributions to Books
BETWEEN FRIENDS: Letters of James Branch
Cabell and Others,
Ed. by Padraic Colum and
Margaret Freeman Cabell
Hall Code |
Description |
Cabell Contribution(s) |
A34 |
First Printing |
Numerous letters |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: BETWEEN FRIENDS | LETTERS OF | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | AND OTHERS | Edited by | PADRAIC COLUM | AND | MARGARET FREEMAN CABELL | WITH AN | INTRODUCTION | BY | CARL VAN VECHTEN | [publisher's device] | HARCOURT, BRACE & WORLD, INC. NEW YORK (see image above).
Title page verso: © 1962 BY HARCOURT, BRACE & WORLD, INC. | [in italic] All rights reserved. No part of this book may be | reproduced in any form or by any mechanical means, | including mimeograph and tape recorder, without | permission from the publisher. | first edition | LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER: 60-10935 | [in italic] Printed in the United States of America (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.; 1962
Collation:
Medium octavo [24 cm. (9½-in.) x 16.5 cm. (6½-in.)]; xvi + frontispiece leaf not counted in pagination + 304; (i) half-title (verso blank); frontispiece leaf not counted in pagination; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v)-vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; (vii) CONTENTS (verso blank); ix-xvi INTRODUCTION; (1) fly-title (verso blank); 3-290 text; 291-292 BOOKS BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL; 293-304 INDEX. Pp. (1), (17), (41), (59), (85), (117), (151), (181), (231), and (275) are fly-titles. Pp. (2), (18), (42), (60), (86), (118), (152), (182), (232), and (276) are blank.
Binding:
Pale yellow cloth; spine lettered in blue with blind stamped decorations; front cover blank; all edges trimmed; tops stained blue. Spine: BETWEEN| FRIENDS | [decoration in blind] | LETTERS | OF | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | AND | OTHERS | [decoration in blind] | Edited by | PADRAIC | COLUM | and | MARGARET | FREEMAN | CABELL | Harcourt, | Brace & World | [publisher's device] (see image above).
Frontispiece:
[superscript] FOSTER STUDIO | [photograph of James Branch Cabell] | [subscript in italic] James Branch Cabell in 1916 (see image above).
Endpapers:
Unmarked pale grey endpapers.
Dust jacket:
White paper; dark blue ground on spine and front cover; lettering and decorations in blue, yellow and white on spine and front and rear panels; lettering on flaps in black (see image above).
Spine: [lettering in white, decorations in yellow] BETWEEN | FRIENDS | [decorated rule] | LETTERS | OF | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | AND | OTHERS | [decorated rule] | Edited by | PADRAIC | COLUM | and | MARGARET | FREEMAN | CABELL | HARCOURT | BRACE & WORLD
Front panel: [lettering in yellow shadowboxed in white] BETWEEN | FRIENDS | [in white] LETTERS OF | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | AND OTHERS | [decoration in yellow] | Edited by PADRAIC COLUM and | MARGARET FREEMAN CABELL | [decoration in yellow] | [in white] With an Introduction by Carl Van Vechten
Rear panel: [in white shadowboxed in blue] BETWEEN FRIENDS | [decoration in yellow] | [in black] [in italic] Gleanings from some of James Branch Cabell's fascinating correspondence: | [excerpts from four of the letters reproduced in the book]
Front flap: [flush right] $7.50 | PADRAIC COLUM AND | MARGARET FREEMAN CABELL, EDITORS | [in italic] Between Friends: Letters of | James Branch Cabell and Others | Introduction by Carl Van Vechten | [27-line blurb in four paragraphs] | [in italic] Jacket design by Anita Walker Scott
Rear flap: [short biographies of James Branch Cabell & Padraic Colum] | Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. | 750 Third Avenue, New York 17, New York
