The lineage of Lichfield : an essay in eugenics / 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

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958 (autograph) (RBC 813 C105Li) (Culture Class Collection copy)

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

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, 46 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

[First Edition.].

Place of Publication:

New York : Robert M. McBride & Company, 1922.

Notes:

With half-title.

"This edition ... is limited to three hundred and sixty-five numbered copies, printed from type, each copy signed by the author."

Title page within single red rules; printed marginalia.

"Copyright, 1922, by James Branch Cabell."

P. 19 "The Lineage of Lichfield. Being a partial list of the descendants of Dom Manuel, Count of Poictesme, as compiled from the books and papers of R. V. Musgrave".

Brown cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine. Front cover has Kalki device in lower right hand corner.

"The first, and only, editon was limited to 365 copies, each numbered and signed by the author."--Cf. Holt.

Local Notes:

RBC 813 C105Li is copy 272.

Culture Class Collection copy has dust-jacket retained.

Culture Class Collection copy has "Extra" printed before the Copy Number F. signed by James Branch Cabell.

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed to Burton Rascoe by James Branch Cabell (?), April 21, 1922.

Culture Class Collection copy has unopened leaves.

Cited in:

Holt, G. Bibl. of the writings of James Branch Cabell, 25

OCLC:

2515759