Jurgen and the censor : report of the Emergency committee organized to protest against the suppression of James Branch Cabell's Jurgen.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Clark, Barrett H. (Barrett Harper), 1890-1953.

Bierstadt, Edward Hale, 1891-

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Conference Name:

Emergency Committee Organized to Protest Against the Suppression of James Branch Cabell's Jurgen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958. Jurgen.

Cabell, James Branch.

Censorship--United States.

Censorship.

United States.

Penn Provenance:

Meyerson, Martin (inscription)

Meyerson, Margy Ellin (autograph, Nov. 14, 1977)

Traver, Bertram (inscription)

Cabell, James Branch (autograph, 22 July, 1921)

Physical Description:

77 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Privately printed for the Emergency Committee [by] Edward Hale Bierstadt, Barrett H. Clark, Sidney Howard, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty [1920]

Contents:

Preface / James Branch Cabell

Letter from the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice / John S. Sumner

Report of the Emergency Committee / Barrett H. Clark Secretary

"Morals, Not Art or Literature" / Edward Hale Bierstadt

List of Signers of the Protest

Letters to the Emergency Committee

Letters to the Publisher

Echoes from the Press

Appendix A

Appendix B.

Notes:

"Four hundred and fifty-eight copies of 'Jurgen and the Censor' have been printed and numbered, of which four hundred and forty are for sale."

T.p. printed in red and black within single-ruled border.

"Copyright, 1920, by Barrett H. Clark."

Preface (p. 7-[9]) and "The Judging of Jurgen" (p. 63-64) by James Branch Cabell.

Brown cloth spine with paper label printed in red and black; darker brown paper boards with lighter brown cloth corners.

Local Notes:

No. 358 of 458 numbered copies.

Culture Class Collection copy (AC9 C1115 A920j) is no. 320.

22 of the letters have been autographed by their writers.

Culture Class Collection (AC9 C1115 T920j) has "Advance sheets. Press copy" written in ms.

Culture Class Collection copy (AC9 C1115 T920j) has cover wanting.

Culture Class Collection copy (AC9 C1115 T920j) has copy number space blank.

OCLC:

1961829