Cabell's Contributions to Books: Reprints in Books
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR YEARBOOK;
editors George Jean Nathan, Ernest Boyd, Theodore Dreiser,
Sherwood Anderson, Eugene O'Neill, James Branch Cabell
Hall Code |
Description |
Cabell Contribution(s) |
B10 |
First Printing 1934 |
Commonplaces
The Genteel Tradition in Sex Prose of a Pallbearer |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [in decorative script] The | AMERICAN SPECTATOR | YEAR BOOK | [in decorative script] Edited by | GEORGE JEAN NATHAN SHERWOOD ANDERSON | ERNEST BOYD JAMES BRANCH CABELL | THEODORE DREISER | EUGENE O'NEILL | [publisher's device] | FREDERICK A STOKES COMPANY | NEW YORK MCMXXXIV (see image above).
Title page verso: Copyright, 1932, 193, and 1934, by | THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR, INC. | All rights reserved. No part of this | work may be reproduced without the | written permission of the publisher. | Printed in the United Sttes of America (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company; 1934
Collation:
Medium octavo (22.3 cm. (8¾-in.) x 15.7 cm. (6 3/16-in.)]; xii + 360 + 2 blank leaves; (i) half title (verso blank); (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; v-vii CONTENTS (verso blank); ix-xii FOREWORD; (1) fly-title (verso blank); 3-359 text (verso blank); 2 blank leaves.
Binding:
Black cloth, gilt and red lettering and decorations on spine, front cover blank; top edge trimmed, else untrimmed. Spine: [double rule in gilt] | [decorated rule in red] | [double rule in gilt] | [in gilt] The | American| Spectator | Year Book | [double rule in gilt] | [decorated rule in red] | [double rule in gilt] | [device in black and red on gilt ground] | [double rule in gilt] | [decorated rule in red] | [double rule in gilt] | [in gilt] [in decorative script] Edited by | NATHAN | BOYD | DREISER | ANDERSON | O'NEILL | CABELL | [double rule in gilt] | [decorated rule in red] | [double rule in gilt] | [device in black and red on gilt ground] | [double rule in gilt] | [in gilt on a red ground] | STOKES | [triple rule in gilt] (see image above).
Dust jacket:
Buff paper; red ground on spine and front panel, lettering ion black and buff (see image above).
Spine: [ black rule] | [in black on a red ground] By Leading Authors | [rule] | ESSAYS | STORIES | CRITICISMS | HUMOR | DRAMA | [lettered up in buff on a black ground] | THE AMERICAN | SPECTATOR | YEAR BOOK | [lettered across in black on a red ground] EDITED BY | George Jean Nathan | Ernest Boyd | Theodore Dreiser | Sherwood Anderson | James Branch | Cabell | Eugene O'Neill | STOKES | [blaCK rule]
Front panel: [all black text on red ground] [black rule] | [on buff ground] Edited by | GEORGE JEAN NATHAN SHERWOOD ANDERSON | ERNEST BOYD EUGENE O'NEILL | THEODRE DREISER JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [black rule] | [on red ground] Amrerican | Spectator | Year Book | [black rule] | [on buff ground] Among the Contributors | IN ADDITION TO THE EDITORS | [list of contributors in three columns] | [black rule on red ground]
Rear panel: MAN'S ROUGH ROAD | [in italic] The Evolution of Society | By. A. G. Keller | 450 Pages, Cloth, 8vo. $3.00 | [excerpts from 11 reviews]
Front flap: [flush right] $2.75 | [rule] THE [rule] | AMERICAN | SPECTATOR | YEAR BOOK | [20-line blurb | [rule]
Rear flap: [flush right] $2.75 | [double rule] | [in italic] Can We Linit | WAR? | By HOFFMAN NICKERSON | [19-line blurb] | [excerpt from a review by Hilaire Beloc| [double rule]
Notes:
Mr. Cabell's contributions are "Commonplaces" (Brewer 94, appeared in the February, 1933, issue as by Branch Cabell), pp. 84-85; "The Genteel Tradition in Sex" (Brewer 129, appeared in the November, 1932, issue as by Branch Cabell), pp. 219-221; and "Prose of a Pallbearer" (Brewer 215, appeared in the December 1932, issue as by Branch Cabell), pp. 336-340.
