Jurgen : a comedy of justice / by James Branch Cabell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958.

Contributor:

Robert M. McBride & Company, publisher.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle Ages--Fiction.

Middle Ages.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 368 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

[First Edition.].

Place of Publication:

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

Notes:

Half-title page has list of "Books by Mr. Cabell," the whole enclosed in single-ruled border on verso.

"Copyright, 191, by Robert M. McBride & Co. Published August, 1919."

Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Front cover has "Jurgen" with the authors name within the lower portion of the "g". Top edge trimmed; other edges untrimmed.

"The copyright page, erroneously, states the book to have been published in August 1919. [Actually published 27 September 1919.] A second printing was issued November 1919, in all respects identical with the first, except that the first printing measures 1 3/8 inches across the top, in all, and the second is about 1/4 of an inch thicker."--Cf. Holt.

Local Notes:

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

Culture Class Collection copy 2 inscribed "For my dear Mother" from "Burton".

Culture Class Collection copy 2 has underlines and marginal marks.

Cited in:

Holt, G. Bibl. of the writings of James Branch Cabell, 15

Brussell, I.R. Cabell, 15

Hall, J.N. Cabell, 7

OCLC:

944674