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Cabell Bargains

1Crypto-Willobie
Bewerkt: aug 6, 2014, 10:21 am

I check Cabell offerings on-line daily and I sometimes come across steals or good deals that I don't need. So I figured I would occasionally post them here in case anyone was innarestid but hadn't seen that listing. Feel free to post yours if you're so minded. Needless to say I am not connected to these booksellers and get no kickback.
Here's the inaugural bargain....

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=13224308331
This is Vol 8 of the Storisende "Works of Cabell", published in 1928. It is signed at the end of the preface. According to the description it's in good shape, though I'm not sure how "some soiling to cover" squares with "near fine" -- but let's say Very Good anyway. It's just $10 plus $4.00 s&h. I would normally expect to pay at least twice as much for this.

The Line of Love was originally Cabell;s first collection of stories published in 1905, but in the 1921 reissue it was augmented by two newer stories in his mature style. Also, in this edition everything is in its latest revision. In some cases that means its fourth version -- the magazine texts were revised for the 1905 collection, then revised again for the 1921 reissue, then revised again for the 1928 Storisende -- as a result even the early stories are a bit more ironic and less sentimental than their originals. Not all of it is his greatest stuff but if you like his voice then still pretty good. Highlights include one of his very best stories, The Wedding Jest which was written in 1919 after Jurgen and added to the 1921 expanded edition. One might call it "horror light" -- sort of a cross between a supernatural weird tale and a screwball romantic comedy. It features Melicent from Domnei, plus her daughter and granddaughter, as well as the eponymous ancestor of Florian de Puysange from The High Place. Also in this volume is Love-letters of Falstaff, perhaps the most popular of his early stories -- after he became famous he was often irritated when people told him that "Falstaff" was their favorite among his writings.

2elenchus
jul 17, 2014, 12:32 pm

You enabler!

I bit, and then retracted my bite: the signed edition is $35 + s/h, but is in much better shape by the description. The non-signed is the $10 offer, and I figure I'll wait.

Or maybe I shouldn't? Ah, I'm still wavering. The $35 seems like a good price, but still not an amount I should be dishing out right now.

3Crypto-Willobie
Bewerkt: jul 17, 2014, 12:48 pm

Not sure which $35 ed you mean... The $10 ed on the link is said to be a Storisende, all of which are signed. Let me look at the listing again...

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Oh... it apears that the $10 Storisende sold sometime in the last few hours after I posted the link (perhaps another Rabbler?). So ABE redirected you to another copy with the same specs -- the $35 copy.
I'd hold off on that. It's not an insane price but there are better Cabell books and better deals on Cabell books for the $$

4paradoxosalpha
jul 17, 2014, 12:46 pm

Odd. My copy of The Line of Love is an unmatched Storisende edition -- one of the few in my library.

5Crypto-Willobie
jul 17, 2014, 12:57 pm

Cheapest Storisendes I see on ABE now are a $15 Rivet in Grandfathers Neck with a dampstain (a non-fantastic Soouthern novel, but good) and some $20 Straws and Prayerbooks (essays plus two Silver Stallion out-takes) and Gallantry (early stories, mostly set in the 18th century). Don't quite make my "deal" cut...

6Crypto-Willobie
jul 17, 2014, 1:13 pm

Backup/filler deal

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=11736640998

The McBride illustrated Jurgen. third printing, for $9 incl s&h. In OK but not super shape. Not the Frank C Pape illustrations; instead they're by Ray Coyle in a sort of Beardsley-cum-Deco style. Cabell liked them but Coyle died shortly afterwards.

7elenchus
jul 17, 2014, 3:40 pm

>3 Crypto-Willobie:

Actually, i re-bit and took the $10 copy, which didn't specify it was signed and I didn't realise each copy was! So I guess the price difference comes down to that cover stain. In any case, I'm happy to go for it at that price.

8elenchus
jul 17, 2014, 3:41 pm

This could be a dangerous thread. Do I keep nibbling at these per piece prices, when quite possibly I'd get a better deal by plunking for the Storisende set? I seem to recall a set you found a year ago or so, listed at $300. Seems steep when coming up with the scratch all at once, but by book it could very well be cheaper.

9Crypto-Willobie
Bewerkt: aug 6, 2014, 10:24 am

Well, the Jurgen I listed isnt a Storisende -- dont you have the illustrated Jurgen? It would take quite a while to accumulate all 18 Storisendes one at a time, as some are fairly scarce (for instance Townsend of Lichfield, and... Jurgen). But a Storisende set may not be essential, depending on your goal...

10elenchus
jul 18, 2014, 9:23 am

I own the Grosset & Dunlop Jurgen, which you helped identify for me a while back when I had the Kalki publisher info listed in the catalogue along with the (correct) image of my G&D cover. So the Pape illustrations, as I recall?

I suppose I haven't settled definitively on my goal. Definitely want to own the complete corpus at some point, but unsure how important it is to have any particular edition. I'll probably decide upon that after reading everything first, and then either inertia will prevail and I'll stick with the mishmash, or I'll get a bee in my bonnet and suddenly decide I must own a particular set. I love the Pape illustrations so I'm fairly sure I'll want all of those, but various threads in this group have persuaded me there are other worthy illustrators out there, too.

I may end up like you, pursuing every variant!

11Crypto-Willobie
Bewerkt: jul 18, 2014, 10:46 am

>10 elenchus: "So the Pape illustrations, as I recall?"

Do you mean Pape illustrations in the G&D? No, nor in any McBride edtion of Jurgen. The Papes for Jurgen were only in the 1921 British edition and then later in a few reprints like the 1970s Dover and the recent Walking Lion edition.

12elenchus
jul 18, 2014, 10:42 am

Huh! I need to pull my copy off the shelf tonight and see what they are then. Perhaps not illustrated at all, but I thought it was.

13elenchus
jul 23, 2014, 9:42 am

Line of Love arrived yesterday, in conditions as described. This is my first Storisende edition, the new / edited material seems considerable, with a prologue and notes before the chapter, etc. Very dense even without reading the stories themselves, I love it.

Also confirmed what no doubt you knew: my G&D Jurgen has no illustrations whatsoever. Somehow that image on the cover, presumably Jurgen leaning on his sword, left an impression of further illustrations within.

I just need to find time to read: it's been hard to come by these past few months, and increasingly discouraging.

14Crypto-Willobie
Bewerkt: jul 23, 2014, 12:22 pm

I find myself increasingly turning to short stories for that reason. I can read a 'complete' work in a brief space.

Have you tried unabridged audiobooks on your commute (assuming you have a commute)? I find the captive audience/daily dose situation good for plowing thru longer works. There's a lotta good stuff out thereon unabridged audio -- Faulkner, VWoolf, Dickens, Trollope, Beckett, Joyce, Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, ASByatt, Elmore leonard, Proust, Dostoevsky, yadda yadda.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/Crypto-Willobie&tag=audio

Oh, and Cabell too!

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords...

15elenchus
jul 23, 2014, 1:01 pm

I love my commute, but it's 20 minutes biking / 45 minutes walking. I toyed with the idea of listening to music / radio / audiobooks, and finally came to the conclusion I most like "tuning out" to media ... especially on the way into work. I continually revisit that decision, but so far don't want to change it.

You make me realise, of course, I can't just sit back and complain. In many ways, I've made decisions and I should accept them, or be willing to change them!

16paradoxosalpha
jul 23, 2014, 4:15 pm

I do a lot of reading on my (train-and-bus) commute. But for the next month or two I'll be needing to do a lot of work during my commute that will slow down my reading agenda.

Not looking forward to that.

17DCBlack
jul 23, 2014, 5:57 pm

The Storisende volumes really were quite well produced. Sturdily constructed, with nice touches like two color printing on the title page, top edges gilt, and of course the signed author's note at the front.

You may need to have a letter opener handy as you read in case you arrive at an uncut page. I remember reading the Storisende edition of Something About Eve, and every few pages having to open an uncut page.

18Crypto-Willobie
Bewerkt: aug 11, 2014, 8:24 am

http://www.alibris.com/booksearch.detail?invId=12346711494&utm_medium=affili...

This is the Alibris listing for Hamlet Had an Uncle, one of Cabell's 'historical' novels of the late 1930s. It's not a fantasy as such but it has fantastical elements, including an Odin/Horvendile-like figure; and it's not a straight historical, nor Shakespeare-based, but rather an ironic (occasionally bitter, violent) retelling more or less from Saxo's version. It's not an effin masterpiece but it's still pretty good.

This copy is ex-library, plus these Rinehart issues used cheap materials, so expect foxing, but this should be a perfectly respectable reading copy, Right now it's $2.88 at Alibris and if you use the Coupon Code GET at checkout you get another dollar off, so 1.88 + 3.99 s&h = $5.85 total. (You can get the same copy for $6.35 net on ABE or $6.85 on Biblio or $6.87 on Amazon if you prefer.) The next cheapest copies out there start at about $15 (incl. s&h) and up, and $30 and up for VG/collectible copies.

19Crypto-Willobie
Bewerkt: aug 6, 2014, 7:37 pm

http://www.alibris.com/booksearch.detail?invid=11684222970&wishListId=187583...

This Alibris listing is for the large paper first edition of Something About Eve. It is one of 850 copies with a vellum spine and corner tips, a frontispiece of Aesred and it is signed and numbered. This dealer does not seem to realize it's the signed limited, but it is clear to me from the description ("white cloth spine and corners and green boards" "Frontis of king in a crown sculpture") that it is.

It's selling here for $10. Use the Coupon Code GET at checkout to get $1 off, and $9 + 3.99 s&h = $12.99. It's fairly common for a signed limited Cabell, but the next cheapest copy out there is about $25, and some dealers list it for silly prices.

20Crypto-Willobie
aug 10, 2014, 6:35 pm

The Witch-woman: A Trilogy About Her
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=13507807023

Total here is $7.06 ($4.58 + 2.48 s&h). No dustjacket. Conditi0n here is "good" -- better than Fair, not as nice as Very Good. Apparently not ex-library. I've found Hippo Books to be pretty reliable in their descriptions. Other copies out there start at about $12 for ex-library copies, more for nicer ones, on up into the sillysphere.

This volume contains the final revisions of the three Witch-woman tales Cabell originally published separately in the late 20s, and then scattered here and there in the Storisende edition:

The Music from Behind the Moon (1926)
The Way of Ecben (1929)
The White Robe (1928)

Too bad he never finished the Witch-woman dizain, because these three are very good. Music from Behind the Moon is a favorite of LT/Rabbler wirkman, while Way of Ecben is a favorite of Cabell curmudgeon Michael Swanwick. White Robe is a sexually ambiguous werewolf story related to the Bluebeard mythos -- what more could you want?

Music from Behind the Moon was significantly revised in the 1940s for inclusion in this volume, so it represents a later state than will be found in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy Domnei volume which uses the 1928 Storisende text. The other two tales were slightly revised for this volume.

21wirkman
okt 17, 2014, 2:32 pm

I am moving my office library home, and my shelf of Cabell overstock will be ready for sale at reasonable prices. Soon. I'll probably make a video of what I have and place it on my website (wirkman.wordpress.com), in case any of you are interested, or on my Facebook page (Timo Virkkala). I will keep you posted.

22elenchus
okt 17, 2014, 3:19 pm

Oh yeah!

23Crypto-Willobie
okt 18, 2014, 3:15 pm

Candy for Halloween!

24Crypto-Willobie
mrt 14, 2018, 6:03 pm

Haven't used this thread in a while but I came across this:

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22789576648&searchurl=xpod...

$8 + 3.95 s&h, cheapest copy I see online, for Smirt, An Urbane Nightmare the first volume in Cabell's The Nightmare has Triplets trilogy written in the mid 1930s after The Biography was complete. In this trilogy Cabell approaches modernism or even post-modernism. The three volumes are somewhat different -- Smirt is rather meta-fictional, Smith, A Sylvan Interlude harks back to his older fantastic style, and Smire, An Acceptance in the Third Person perhaps approaches Flann O'Brien nightmarishness. But of course it's all saturated in Cabellishness. Not an effin masterpiece but an accomplishment of sorts. Edmund Wilson, asshole though he was, was impressed with it...

25absurdeist
mrt 19, 2018, 11:08 pm

Tempting!

26Crypto-Willobie
mei 5, 2018, 10:57 pm

Hardback copy of of Something About Eve signed by Cabell for just $12.48 net (i.e. free shipping). They don't say but I'm guessing this is the large paper ltd ed with the vellum spine. Said to be in VG condition.
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=21050405721&searchurl=xpod...

27elenchus
mei 6, 2018, 11:35 pm

Enabler!

Couldn't pass that up.

28wirkman
mei 12, 2018, 11:02 pm

I have extra copies of Smirt snd Smith, I believe, as well as several first editions of The Way of Ecben, etc. In case folks are still looking for stuff.

Indeed, if you are looking for copies, some of them cheap, of old Cabell hardcovers, I may very well have the book you want, if not the edition....

Many duplicates.

29lansingsexton
mei 14, 2018, 1:46 pm

>28 wirkman: I'm interested in Smirt and Smith. I have a very nice copy of Smire with dust jacket and I'd like to match it. What is the condition of your copies?

30elenchus
mei 15, 2018, 9:01 pm

>26 Crypto-Willobie:

The Limited Edition (Eve-A1a in the Silver Stallion nomenclature) arrived today, in great condition and only the slipcase overly worn, so it's done its job. I have the BAF edition already, though not yet read, but this is an infinitely better edition.

The seller advertised it as "signed by the author" but I confirmed via Silver Stallion that's the facsimile on the face of the illustration of Aeldred. I do not complain, mind, it's in Very Good condition and I'm pleased to see not the English Printing with the bowdlerized Nose.

31Crypto-Willobie
Bewerkt: mei 15, 2018, 9:54 pm

>30 elenchus:
You should find Cabell's signature a page or two after the title page, on the numbered Limitation page. Btw, they have that bust of Aesred on display outside the Cabell Collection room in the Cabell Library at VCU.

http://www.silverstallion.karkeeweb.com/bibliography/manuel/eve/eve_a1a/html/eve...

32elenchus
Bewerkt: mei 15, 2018, 10:33 pm

>31 Crypto-Willobie:

The limitation page signature is so small I assumed it, too, was a facsimile. Smaller even than the bust illustration, and completely different hand! It's hard to make out the writing on the bust image, though: perhaps it reads "To James Branch Cabell" ?

ETA The copy came with an inserted clipping from a magazine (cannot identify which) with a FACSIMILE OF THE FIRST PAGE OF THE MANUSCRIPT OF JAMES BRANCH CABELL'S "JURGEN". Truthfully, the limitation page signature does match the hand of this manuscript hand.

33Crypto-Willobie
Bewerkt: mei 15, 2018, 11:06 pm

>32 elenchus:
Yes, the writing below the bust says TO James Branch Cabell.
The sig on the limitations page is genuine. His small regular signature has sometimes been mistaken for a facsimile (such as the facsimile signature beneath his photo in Carl Van Doren's book about him) but this (and other advertised 'limitation signatures') are real. Buy three more copies of this and compare them all with a magnifier and you will see! And see here: http://www.silverstallion.karkeeweb.com/notes_essays/storisende.html

Is the Jurgen facsimile page part of the magazine article? Does the clipping say who the review/article is by? and/or can you give me the first sentence of it?

34paradoxosalpha
mei 16, 2018, 12:22 pm

It's funny that he had a tiny signature. It's consistent with his remarks (in Special Delivery, and maybe elsewhere) deriding the insistence of collectors that the author deface the book.

35elenchus
mei 16, 2018, 1:07 pm

>33 Crypto-Willobie:
Ha! An article I'd missed on Silver Stallion that addresses my very question. I am persuaded my copy has a genuine signature, it looks very much like the four examples.

For the benefit of everyone reading this thread, I note I've sent C-W a scan of the manuscript page in response to his questions in >33 Crypto-Willobie:.

36Crypto-Willobie
mei 16, 2018, 3:11 pm

>34 paradoxosalpha:
It wasn't just his signature that was tiny -- his usual handwriting was small and regular as well. It's not the size but what you do with it...

37paradoxosalpha
mei 16, 2018, 4:53 pm

I would never have suspected Cabell of a sloppy writing hand in any sense.

38elenchus
mei 16, 2018, 8:36 pm

I hadn't thought about it specifically but a neat, regular writing hand certainly fits with his outlook, style, and workmanship.

39wirkman
jun 13, 2018, 4:07 pm

I have been forced to delay because — I cannot find them in my library! I put them somewhere, but where, I do not know.

Sorry.

If there be consolation, none of mine have had surviving dust jackets.

I just looked at the Cabell books that are overstock. They include two copies of "There Were Two Pirates," and a copy each of "The Way of Ecben" and "These Restless Heads." I have more elsewhere, and have some books about Cabell, as well, including two editions of McNeill's "Cabellian Harmonics." None have dust jackets and all have faded spines — except the McNeill.

40wirkman
aug 5, 2018, 2:47 am

I just added seven volumes of the Storisende Edition to my collection today, for prices ranging from $10.95 to $30.00 each. I will have Kalki editions of the same volumes up for sale soon, including a First Edition of The Eagle’s Shadow and Gallantry.

But it may be days or weeks before I list them propery.

41Crypto-Willobie
jan 6, 2019, 4:04 pm

Decent price for the limited first UK edition of Jurgen (1921), the first Cabell book with illustrations by Frank C. Pape. Condition stated is only Good+ but check out the photos -- looks ok. $18 + 3.50 s&h

http://tinyurl.com/y9f2nkaz

42les-lanciers-du-roi
jan 8, 2019, 7:55 am

Hi all! I have two extra copies of Smith and Smire, good reading copies, no DJ, the old hardcovers. Some overall wear to both. I can supply images. I would sell both for $25 to anyone who is interested! (I sell used books on instagram as a means of secondary income, but I thought I'd post the info here first, as these guys are sometimes hard to come by).

43les-lanciers-du-roi
Bewerkt: feb 7, 2019, 2:02 pm

Someone is selling the complete Del Rey paperbacks (6, reissues of the Ballantines) on EBay for like $30 or best offer. I'd grab it myself if they wouldn't end up being my third or fourth copy of some of the books....

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-of-6-JAMES-BRANCH-CABELL-Fantasy-PB-Book-CHRONICLES...

44Crypto-Willobie
feb 7, 2019, 3:31 pm

>43 les-lanciers-du-roi:
Those Del Rey reissues have got to have the worst cover art of any edition of any Cabell book -- perhaps of any book ever.

45les-lanciers-du-roi
feb 7, 2019, 5:40 pm

Certainly not as nice as the Ballantines! but I kind of like the Figures of Earth cover.

46elenchus
feb 7, 2019, 7:48 pm

I've got a singleton of the Eve edition. I don't think I need any of the others.

47wirkman
Bewerkt: feb 12, 2019, 3:27 am

Yes. I have complained of the Del Rey reissues before — and the whole Del Rey line. It was the end of an era when that imprint took up the slack from BAF “adult fantasy” and a few other Ballantine lines. Either the Del Reys had no taste or Ballantine gave no budget for art. It is astounding how bad it was. And it would be so easy even for a novice to make something minimal and so much better.

48wirkman
feb 11, 2019, 2:24 am

How does one — or you, les-lanciers-du-roi — sell on Instagram? I guess I will look for you there. And find out.

49les-lanciers-du-roi
feb 11, 2019, 4:42 pm

Well it's kind of a weird thing. There's a whole community of booksellers and readers that sprouted there. I just post images of books I'm selling, along with a price and short description. It's quite fun, and you meet (well..) lots of great people. I'm @apportusedbooks on there.

50les-lanciers-du-roi
Bewerkt: mrt 2, 2019, 5:40 pm

Found an affordable Storisende.... just arrived today. Beautiful. All but two have uncut pages, all matching numbers. Hearts in my eyes. Let me know if you need any Kalkis, I've got many I'd be willing to part with (for a reasonable price). Mostly ex-lib...

51Crypto-Willobie
mrt 2, 2019, 6:03 pm

>50 les-lanciers-du-roi:
Depending on your needs it may be worth it to keep some Kalkis as they often have different texts than the Storisende. Much of the Storisende revision is an improvement, but not all.

For instance the ending of Cream of the Jest, which was originally written in 1917 before the concept of "The Biography" really got off the ground, has been fiddled, stretched and 'Manuelized' in a way that, for me, rather spoils the ending.

Some titles have three significantly different texts: the early pre-1915 texts, the revised editions of the early 1920s, and then the final revised editions of the Storisende -- and the differences can be instructive, revealing of Mr Cabell's art. This applies, at least, to Eagle's Shadow, Gallantry, Line of Love, and Cords of Vanity.

Even later titles (1921-26) like Figures, Stallion, High Place, and Straws were revised for the Storisende. (Eve and Witch Women not so much as they were pretty new when the Storisende was begun).

52elenchus
mrt 4, 2019, 10:51 am

>50 les-lanciers-du-roi: Found an affordable Storisende.... just arrived today.

I give you joy on your discovery! Perhaps one day I'll share the same.

>51 Crypto-Willobie:

Helpful to have the various degrees of revision laid out like that, I've known (no doubt from The Silver Stallion blog) that there were many revisions and some quite substantial, but could not say to which titles had received which level of treatment. Another element to review when re-reading, to be sure.

53Crypto-Willobie
mrt 4, 2019, 2:17 pm

>51 Crypto-Willobie: >52 elenchus:

Some titles have three significantly different texts: the early pre-1915 texts, the revised editions of the early 1920s, and then the final revised editions of the Storisende -- and the differences can be instructive, revealing of Mr Cabell's art. This applies, at least, to Eagle's Shadow, Gallantry, Line of Love, and Cords of Vanity.

I should have added Chivalry and Domnei to this list. And actually, with the exception of Eagle's Shadow, these books were compilations or even 'fix-ups', of magazine stories so that's a primordial fourth state of text.

Certain Hour (1916) was a compilation and Rivet (1915) was a fix-up, but as they were the earliest McBride titles they were not given a post-Jurgen make-over in the early 20s. Cream (1917) and Beyond Life (1919) and Jurgen (1919) received some minor adjustments in the early/mid '20s, but all these, with Figures (1921), Stallion (1926), High Place (1923), and Straws (1924), got major revisions only with the Storisende.

Any particular title you are wondering about I can probably give you a decent-quick textual history if you ask.

54les-lanciers-du-roi
mrt 4, 2019, 3:40 pm

Fascinated by the history of the revisions, as well. I do like to stick with what Cabell himself in the end preferred, though perhaps that eventually became ambiguous re: the Bio of Man..

Anyway, my happiness with the Storisende is almost more an aesthetic and, eh, OCD response than a textual one. Might be a good idea to hold on to some Kalkis, though, you're right.

55wirkman
Bewerkt: mrt 25, 2019, 4:12 am

Having the first and final editions of Cream and Rivet make sense to me. Having the Storisende editions of all else except for the true final editions of Music, strikes me as reasonable, too.

I will be selling most of my Kalkis and illustrateds of Jurgen, etc.

Call it the Economics of Wirkman.

56Crypto-Willobie
Bewerkt: mrt 24, 2019, 9:26 pm

Pape-illustrated edition of Figure of Earth on eBay right now for $4.99 plus 3.27 shipping.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/ANTIQUE-BOOK-JAMES-BRANCH-CABELL-FIGURES-OF-EARTH-ILLUS...
See the pics. Looks a little worn on the outside but not bad.

57Crypto-Willobie
mei 25, 2019, 7:13 pm

Relatively inexpensive copy of SMITH, the second volume of the Nightmare has Triplets trilogy. Although there are some connections, each volume is capable of standing on its own.

For my money, Smith is the most enjoyable of the trilogy, and is also the most similar to the Fantasy volumes in The Biography. This one is $12 with 3.95 shipping. The next 'real' copy is $32 plus shipping, and the next p.o.d copies are $21.

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30331617234&searchurl=bi%3...

58Crypto-Willobie
Bewerkt: jun 11, 2019, 9:24 pm

And the sequel to Smith...
SMIRE for just $7.00 plus 3.95 S+H

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30344121001&searchurl=kn%3...

And vol 1 (Smirt) from the same seller ($8 and save on shipping)
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22789576648&tab=1&sear...

Ha! just noticed that Smith above is also from Dan River Books. So the three of t hem wd be just 7.45 shipping instead of the usual $12.

The whole Nightmare trilogy for 12+8+7+7.45 = 34.45

Cabell at his most post-modern...

59Crypto-Willobie
Bewerkt: jul 15, 2019, 8:17 am

A relatively inexpensive copy of the first American illustrated edition of Jurgen. Frank C. Pape had already done the UK illustrated edition of Jurgen in 1921, but for some reason in 1923 Cabell's publisher went with Ray C. Coyle for theirs, although later the same year they began their own string of Papes with The High Place.

Coyle died shortly after doing Jurgen (or we might have heard more from him), and his style is a bit more 'deco' than Pape's. Here's his frontispiece: http://www.silverstallion.karkeeweb.com/bibliography/manuel/jurgen/kalki/Jur_c1/...

This copy has no jacket but is said to be in 'very good' condition by a reliable seller.
$7.50 + 4.25 shipping. http://tinyurl.com/yy93umox

60elenchus
jul 14, 2019, 11:24 pm

>59 Crypto-Willobie:

Not sure whether I should thank you, but for that price I wasn't able to resist.

Had I not known this was Coyle, I would have guessed it was Papé. It will be fun to compare the illustrations, and perhaps this will prompt me to read Jurgen this year: still on my TBR pile.

61Crypto-Willobie
jul 15, 2019, 8:24 am

Sorry!

62paradoxosalpha
jul 16, 2019, 10:11 am

63Crypto-Willobie
jul 16, 2019, 10:13 am

>60 elenchus:
Have you turned 40 yet? Jurgen is targeted at men (sorry!) over the age of 40.

64elenchus
jul 16, 2019, 10:20 am

I'm past 50, so I'm overdue.

65paradoxosalpha
jul 16, 2019, 11:56 am

>63 Crypto-Willobie: Like Hesse's Steppenwolf, it's wasted on the young.

66bookstopshere
jul 16, 2019, 9:19 pm

weeding thru some dupes and thought I'd offer them here before going to eBay:

brown McBrides: BEYOND LIFE
SILVER STALLION
JURGEN
GALLANTRY
SOMETHING ABOUT EVE
CERTAIN HOUR
CORDS OF VANITY
STRAWS AND PRAYER BOOKS
black McBride: THESE RESTLESS HEADS
Bodley Head: DOMNEI (blue)

stray copy of Van Doren's Literary Guild book on Cabell

also a bunch of Dedalus' "decadent" titles, 6 0r 7 Blue Jade library titles and misc. decadent lit like Stenbock's Collected Poems

priced right
cheers, scott

67Crypto-Willobie
jul 16, 2019, 9:26 pm

>66 bookstopshere:
Do any of these have dust jackets?
Is Silver Stallion the 6th, 7th or 8th printing?
Any interesting bookplates or previous owners?

68bookstopshere
jul 16, 2019, 10:00 pm

no djs
4th printing May 1926
nope

69Crypto-Willobie
jul 16, 2019, 10:20 pm

tnx

70absurdeist
jul 16, 2019, 10:57 pm

>66 bookstopshere: may I trouble you to list the Dedalus decadent titles you are offering for sale,

and also which Blue Jade Library titles you'll be listing?

hearty thx in advance!

71bookstopshere
jul 17, 2019, 12:52 pm

Dedalus: Book of Decadence: Moral Ruin
Second Book of Decadence: Black Feast
German Decadence
Russian Decadence
English Decadence
Mirabeau: Torture Garden
de Gourmont: Angels of Perversity
also from Dedalus:Portuguese, Flemish, Finnish, Dutch and Greek Fantasy
and French Horror and Tales of the Wandering Jew

Blue Jade Library:
de Gobineau: The Pleiads
D'Aaurevilly: The Diaboliques
Morier: The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
Macfall: The Wooings of Jezebal Pettyfer
de Lille-Adam: Sardonic Tales
D'Aurevilly: The Diaboliques
Pickthall: Said the Fisherman
Garnett: The Twilight of the Gods
also a stray copy of Deeping: Uther and Igraine NOT the Blue Jade edn

72Crypto-Willobie
Bewerkt: sep 4, 2019, 9:53 am

Ye may have heard occasional tell of the so-called "Red Storisendes".
Hears the skinny: http://www.silverstallion.karkeeweb.com/bibliography/xyz/storisende/red_storisen...

And here's one that has just come on the market for a not-insane price. Further, the seller seems not to realize it is signed:
http://tinyurl.com/y4kqbfur

ETA Here's a close-up of the cover. No jacket on this copy.
http://www.silverstallion.karkeeweb.com/bibliography/xyz/storisende/red/html/dom...

73absurdeist
sep 3, 2019, 11:35 pm

Those "Reds" are beautiful.

74Crypto-Willobie
Bewerkt: sep 4, 2019, 9:54 am

>73 absurdeist:
Yes indeed! very nice for a remainder binding...

75les-lanciers-du-roi
sep 20, 2019, 5:40 pm

still have any of these?

76Crypto-Willobie
okt 27, 2019, 11:51 pm

Reading Copy...

Cabell's final book, As I Remember It, memoirish. Ex-library, presumably no jacket,
but just $4.35 NET, i.e, 4.35 and free shipping.
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=20740772128&searchurl=bi%3...

77Crypto-Willobie
mrt 9, 2020, 7:45 pm

>6 Crypto-Willobie: >59 Crypto-Willobie:

Another, even cheaper, copy of the Ray Coyle illustrated Jurgen, $5.20 with Free Shipping. Hard to tell the condition for sure but they say 'Good" rather than 'Very Good' or just 'Fair'. So it shd be alright but perhaps with some wear. But you'd probably be getting it for the illustrations anyway.

https://www.biblio.com/book/jurgen-comedy-justice-james-branch-cabell/d/12806984...

78elenchus
mrt 10, 2020, 12:10 pm

I still need to read Jurgen! And still have that Coyle edition waiting on my shelves.

79Crypto-Willobie
mrt 10, 2020, 8:47 pm

So, not for you...

80wirkman
apr 3, 2020, 11:07 pm

I have too many editions, including Storisende and Modern Library.

81Crypto-Willobie
okt 3, 2020, 8:26 pm

Good price on the 1921 first British edition of Jurgen. Limited edition of 3000, first ever Cabell book to be illustrated by Frank C. Pape. $19.99 plus 3.99 s&h.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1921-Limited-Edition-American-Fantasy-JURGEN-James-Bran...

82anglemark
okt 4, 2020, 4:29 am

>81 Crypto-Willobie: Yes, good price. I paid more than twice for my copy.

83Crypto-Willobie
feb 3, 2021, 3:13 pm

For just $4.00 net (free shipping) you may acquire Jesting Moses: A study in Cabellian Comedy. Didn't change my life, but decent enough, and recommended by Joe Lee Davis.

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30739370698&searchurl=kn%3...

84elenchus
feb 3, 2021, 3:22 pm

>83 Crypto-Willobie:

Done. For the price I thought I shouldn't overthink it, despite the raft of Cabellian criticism already on my shelves.

85les-lanciers-du-roi
feb 3, 2021, 5:34 pm

>83 Crypto-Willobie:

just grabbed one too. seems worthwhile.

86paradoxosalpha
feb 3, 2021, 6:23 pm

How many $4 ex-library copies does the vendor have? Seems odd. I'm going to pass, because I have so much unread Cabell criticism in my library--not to mention unread Cabell!

87elenchus
feb 3, 2021, 6:29 pm

>86 paradoxosalpha: not to mention unread Cabell

That applies to me, too. And I started to wonder whether I should instead look for one of the Cabell titles I don't yet own, let alone not yet read ... and reminded myself, stop overthinking this!

It does seem odd the this seller had 3 if not more library copies. I wonder if my order will end up being canceled when the seller discovers he does not, in fact, have a copy on the shelf despite advertising it.

88Crypto-Willobie
feb 3, 2021, 6:46 pm

>87 elenchus:

Better World get an enormous proportion of its stock from deaccesssioning libraries so it's quite possible they have multis of the same title, which in turn might work to lower the price.

89wirkman
feb 7, 2021, 7:24 pm

The book is borrowable by the hour from The Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/jestingmosesstud0000well

Yet I ordered one from Better World Books, too.

90Crypto-Willobie
feb 7, 2021, 11:19 pm

I respect the IA but I love the feel of the real...

91elenchus
feb 9, 2021, 7:14 pm

My copy arrived today, evidently withdrawn from Bates College (Lewiston, Maine, USA).