Cabell's Contributions to Books: Reprints in Books
JOHAN BOJER: The Man and his Works,
by Carl Gad
Hall Code |
Description |
Cabell Contribution(s) |
B4 |
First American Edition 1920 |
Critique on THE FACE OF THE WORLD |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [all enclosed in a double ruled box] JOHN BOJER | THE MAN AND HIS WORKS | [double rule] | BY | CARL GAD | TRANSLATED FROM THE NORWEGIAN BY | ELIZABETH JELLIFFE MACINTIRE | [double rule] | [in italic] With an introduction by | LLEWELLYN JONES | [in italic] and critiques by | JOHN GALSWORTHY, JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER | JAMES BRANCH CABELL AND CECIL ROBERTS | [double rule] | [publisher's device] |[double rule] | NEW YORK | MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY | 1920 (see image above).
Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY | MOFFAT, YARD & COMPANY (see image above).
Publication:
New York: Moffat, Yard and Company; 1920.
Collation:
Crown octavo [19.2 cm. (7 9/16-in.) x 13 cm. (5¼-in.)]; 262 + tipped in frontispiece not included in pagination + one blank leaf; (1) half-title (verso blank); tipped in leaf, recto blank, verso frontispiece facing p. 3; (3) title page; (4) publication data; (5) Contents (verso blank); 7-8 FOREWORD; 9-25 INTRODUCTION (verso blank); 27-227 text (verso blank); 229-260 APPENDIX; (261) list of books by Mr. Bojer (verso blank); blank leaf.
Binding:
Black cloth, red lettering on spine, top edge trimmed, else untrimmed. Spine: JOHN | BOJER | [rule] | MOFFAT, YARD | & COMPANY | Front cover: [enclosed in blind stamped single ruled box] (see image above).
Frontispiece:
Charcoal head of John Bojer, signed K. Gibran | 1920 (see image above).
Dust jacket:
White paper, black lettering and decorations (see image above).
Spine: BOJER | THE MAN | AND | HIS WORKS | [double rule] | GAD | MOFFAT, | YARD | and | COMPANY
Front panel: [all enclosed in a double ruled box] JOHN BOJER | THE MAN AND HIS WORKS | [double rule] | BY | CARL GAD | TRANSLATED FROM THE NORWEGIAN BY | ELIZABETH JELLIFFE MACINTIRE | [double rule] | [in italic] With an introduction by | LLEWELLYN JONES | [in italic] and critiques by | JOHN GALSWORTHY, JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER | JAMES BRANCH CABELL AND CECIL ROBERTS | [double rule] | [publisher's device] |[double rule] | NEW YORK | MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY
Rear panel: [all enclosed ina single ruled box] [upper left: illustration of Treacherous Ground above an excerpt from a critique by Cecil Roberts] | [device] | [upper right: illustration of The Power of a Lie above an excerpt from a critique by Sir Hall Caine] | [device] {photo of Johan Bojer; subscript in italic Johan Bojer [device] | "A Maupassant of the | North!" ― | BLASCO IBANEZ
Front flap: LIFE | [in italic] by | JOHAN BOJER | [double rule] | [33-line blurb in three paragraphs | [double rule] | Moffat, Yard and Company | Publishers New York
Rear flap: [in italic] A LIE | [34-line blurb in three paragraphs | [double rule] | Moffat, Yard and Company | Publishers New York
Notes:
Mr. Cabell's contribution is "Critique on The Face of the World," pp. 247-255, which first appeared in The New York Sun, October 12, 1919, as "Cabell on Bojer's Latest: Critique on Johan Bojer's Face of the World," Brewer 85.
