Beyond life : dizain des Demiurges / by James Branch Cabell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authorship.

Genre:

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

Semple, John Kirk (bookplate) (stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy 1)

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

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

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

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 366 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

[First Edition.].

Place of Publication:

New York : Robert M. McBride & Company, 1919.

Contents:

Wherein we approach all authors at their best.

Which deals with the demiurge.

Which hints at the witch-woman.

Which admires the economist.

Which condiders the reactionary.

Which values the candle.

Which indicates the mountebank.

Which concerns the contemporary.

Which defers to the arbiters.

Wherein we await the dawn.

Notes:

Half-title page has "Books by Mr. Cabell," the whole list enclosed in a double-ruled box on verso.

"Copyright 1919 by Robert M. McBride & Company. Published January, 1919."

Publisher's advertisements: p. 359-366.

Brown cloth with gilt lettering. All edges trimmed.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy 1 has bookplate and stamp of John Kirk Semple.

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

Culture Class Collection copy 1 has label of Presbyterian Book Store, Nashville.

Culture class Collection copy 2 inscribed to Burton Rascoe by James Branch Cabell 5 January 1919.

OCLC:

254875