The White Robe: A Saint's Summary (LIMITED PRINTING) by James Branch Cabell - 1928

Robert M. McBride & Company, 1928-10-01. Hardcover. Good. Limited edition of 3290 copies. Leather spine faded & rubbed. Wear to boards of corners, edges & cover. Includes shelf worn slip case.

New York: Robert M. McBride, 1928. Hardcover. Good/Good. First edition. Good in good dustwrapper. One of 3, 290 copies. Spine is worn. Comes in a slipcase. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

About this Item: Robert M. McBride and Company, New York, 1928. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Robert E. Locher (illustrator). Limited Edition. This LIMITED EDITION one of 3290 copies is in as very fine condition. This copy has never been read and probably never opened.The cover is a modern adaptation of the Medieval leather and oaken bord binding. Book os quarter bound in fine brown leather which is slightly sun faded. The gilt lettering is fine.The bottom of the rear board shows slight wear at the bottom edge. The top edge is trimmed and the fore and bottom edges are un-trimmed. The Paper is Italian hand made, and made of pure linen and hempen rags, beaten in pieces by dint of wood, and made stiff with glue got from boiled hides. The volume was designed by William Dana Orcutt (1870-1953), an important book and type face designer. The Typography, press work, and binding are by Plimpton Press, Norwood, Massachusetts, under his personal supervision. Publishers slipcase is in fair condition… Read More

Bodley Head, 1928. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1928. No Edition Remarks. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with black and white illustrated plates throughout. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and rough cut edges to text block. Tape residue to endpapers and pastedowns and binding is loose. Boards have visible ink marks and rubbing. Heavier bumping to corners and fair crushing to spine ends. Major peeling and sunning to spine.

New York: Robert M. McBride, 1928. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Robert E. Locher. Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Untrimmed pages. Gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout, illustrated by Robert E. Locher. Covers decorated to look like wood. In protective decorative slipcase, Excellent condition, just spine slightly faded. from shelf wear. Still quite bright and clean inside. Record # 30652

NY: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1928. "Of this volume The White Robe, 3290 copies have been printed from type in October, 1928, of which 3250 are for sale, and the type has been destroyed." Leather-backed faux wooden boards. Illustrations by Robert E. Locher. Designed by William Dana Orcutt and printed on Italian hand-made Fabriano paper. Two color title page. With eight full-page drawings by Robert Locher. Sunning to the spine as usual otherwise a fine copy. Clean and bright with crisp text. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Robert M. McBride & Company, 1928. First Edition. Leather Binding. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall (thin). Exceptionally nice copy. Bound in half brown calf over light brown wood-patterned boards, gilt-stamped spine, plain endpapers, all edges untrimmed, in publisher's matching wood-patterned heavy stock cardboard slipcase (slight sunning to spine; slipcase has slight wear and a hint of cracking). [95] pages (including plates; unpaginated). Story of the 'blessed Odo', who progresses from the secular state of a shepherd through various stages of sanctity prior to his consecration as a bishop. One of 3290 copies (the entire edition, of which 3250 were for sale; this copy is unnumbered), designed by William Dana Orcutt, printed on Italian handmade Fabriano Mills paper, with typography, presswork and binding by the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Massachusetts, October, 1928, under Orcutt's supervision. Locher, Robert E. (illustrator); 8 b/w illustrations; Decorative title Page (red/black).

New York: Robert M McBride and Company, 1928. Limited Edition. Quarter Leather. VG/No Dustjacket. Locher, Robert E.. one of 3290 copies, leather spine with pressed gilt lettering, faux wood beveled covers, matching slipcase scuffed and rubbed, as is leather spine. Internals fine.

New York: Robert M. McBride and Co., 1928. Ltd. Ed.. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Unpaginated, illustrated in b&w by Robert E. Locher. Limited to 3290 copies. Paper-covered boards with a wood pattern, maroon cloth spine, printed on handmade paper, designed by William Dana Orcutt. Record # 405181

New York: Robert M. Mcbride & Company. Very Good. (1928). Hardcover. One of 3290 copies on Italian handmade paper. Untrimmed pages, leather spine is rubbed, otherwise a clean, very good copy in a chipped slipcase. .