The eagle's shadow / by James Branch Cabell ; illustrated by Will Grefé ; decorated by Blanche Ostertag.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958.

Contributor:

Grefé, Will, illustrator.

Ostertag, Blanche, illustrator.

Doubleday, Page & Company, publisher.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Currie, Barton, 1877-1962 (donor) (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy 1)

Rascoe, Burton, 1892-1957 (donor) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy 2)

Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958 (autograph) (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy 2)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 256 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

[First Edition.].

Place of Publication:

New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1904.

Notes:

With half-title.

Title and preliminary pages printed in green.

"Published, October, 1904."

"An abridged version of this story appeared serially in 'The Saturday Eevening Post' during the summer of 1904. The novel is here given in its entirety as originally conceived by the author."

Red cloth boards lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Green pictorial endpapers.

"In the first state alone, the dedication (p. v) reads 'To M. L. P. B. / in trust that the enterprise may be judged / less by the merits of its factor than / by those of its patron'. In the second state, the first two lines are altered to read 'To / Martha Louise Branch /'. In each of these states the frontispiece, 'Margaret' (second quotation mark defective), represents a girl seated."--Cf. Holt.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy 1 has red bookplate of Barton Currie.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 has bookplate of James Branch Cabell.

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed to Burton Rascoe by James Branch Cabell, 1 September 1918.

Culture Class Collection copy has original dedication.

Cited in:

Holt, G. Bibl. of the writings of James Branch Cabell, 1

Brewer & Bruccoli. Cabell 17

OCLC:

1371509