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Beyond life : Dizain des démiurges / by James Branch Cabell ; introduction by Guy Holt.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC9 C1115 919b 1923
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958.
- Series:
- Modern library of the world's best books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fiction.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- xix pages, 3 unnumbered pages 358 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Boni and Liveright Publishers, [1923]
- 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:
- T.p. printed within double-ruled border.
- "Copyright, 1919, by James Branch Cabell.
- Introduction dated Sept. 4, 1923, New York City.
- "Complete list of [Modern Library] titles": p. [5] p. at end.
- "'Beyond Life' was in 1923 included in The Modern Library, as published by Boni & Liveright, New York ... This is a reprint from the original plates, omitting p. 359-366, and with the additional of an Introduction by Guy Holt, which in The Modern Library edition composes p. ix-xix."--Cf. Holt.
- Brown cloth boards lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Pictorial grey and white "M L" endpapers signed Horace Brodzky.
- Cited in:
- Holt, G. Bibl. of the writings of James Branch Cabell, 14
- OCLC:
- 3317681
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