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The eagle's shadow / by James Branch Cabell ; illustrated by Will Grefé ; decorated by Blanche Ostertag.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC9 C1115 904eb
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Starrett, Vincent, 1886-1974 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, xi pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 256 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- [First British Edition.].
- Manufacture:
- Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. : Printed by Berwick & Smith co.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Wm. Heinemann, 1904.
- Notes:
- With half-title.
- "This Edition enjoys Copyright in all Countries signatory to the Berne Treaty, and is not be imported into the United States of America."
- T.p. and all preliminary pages printed in green. Contains original dedication and frontispiece.
- "A small English edition, from imported sheets in the first state, ... was issued in the autumn of 1904 by Wm. Heinemann."--Cf. Holt.
- Green cloth boards with blue and black stamping and gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Green and white pictorial endpapers. All edges trimmed.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has embossed stamp "Presentation Copy".
- Culture Class Collection copy has ms. annotation and autograph of Vincent Starrett.
- Cited in:
- Holt, G. Bibl. of the writings of James Branch Cabell, 1
- OCLC:
- 12621185
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