Preface to the Past / 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:

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

viii, 309 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Robert M. McBride & Company, [1936]

Notes:

With half-title.

"Copyright, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1936 by James Branch Cabell."

"Be it prologized that when the Storisende edition of the Biography of the Life of Manuel was prepared in 1927-30, then not merely was the complete text of the Biography rewritten, with the candors permissible in a limited edition, and considerable new matter added to most of the volumes, but also to each of the revised volumes was affixed its own special informal, and rather garrulous commentary in the form of an Author's Note. In this present book, thrift has collected these twenty commentaries, now 'out of print,' as being equally applicable to the unrevised text of the yet current Kalki edition ... For the rest, the chief purpose of these commentaries is two-fold: to explain, first the place of the discussed volume in the structure of the entire Biography; and to explain, secondly, the circumstances in which this volume came to be written, as well as the circumstances in which it was published: to explain, that is, the special functions and the special origins of each volume."--P. 3-4.

Brown cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine with Kalki device stamped in gilt on lower right hand corner of front cover.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed to Burton Rascoe by James Branch Cabell, 30 January 1936.

OCLC:

837986