Taboo : a legend retold from the Dirghic of Sævius Nicanor, with Prolegomena, Notes, and a Preliminary Memoir / 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):

English fiction.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

40 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Sævius Nicanor.

Place of Publication:

New York : Robert M. McBride & Company, 1921.

Notes:

With half-title.

"This edition is limited to nine hundred and twenty numbered copies, of which one hundred copies have been signed by the author."

T.p. printed within single red ruled border.

"Copyright, 1921, by James Branch Cabell."

"Revised and reprinted, by permission of the Editors, from 'The Literary Review'."

"An earlier pirated reprint of the article 'The Taboo in Literature,' which comprises p. 21-39 of the present volume was issued in Chicago, and consists of a four-page leaflet."--Cf. Holt.

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

Local Notes:

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

Culture Class Collection copy 1 is no. 42 signed by the author.

Culture Class Collection copies 1 & 2 have dust-jackets retained.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 is no. 610.

Cited in:

Brewer, F.J. Cabell, 44

OCLC:

943052