Re: So it is true...

Brian M. Scott wrote:
>
> On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 22:34:01 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
> <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> <news:43976358.5B47@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> in sci.lang:
>
> > Brian M. Scott wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >> Or James Branch Cabell. [...]
>
> > And evn antiquarian dealers, who don't have him any more,
> > say he doesn't sell.
>
> Which is sad. I was glad that Ballantine republished as
> much of him (under the Sign of the Unicorn) as they did back
> in the late 60s and early 70s.

And they didn't sell, which is why Lin Carter didn't get to do the whole
series.

> > And here I am missing several volumes of the Biography of
> > the Life of Manuel.
>
> The Gutenberg project (www.gutenberg.org) has the following
> titles:
>
> # The Certain Hour (English)
> # Chivalry
> # The Cords of Vanity, A Comedy of Shirking
> # Domnei, A Comedy of Woman-Worship
> # The Eagle's Shadow
> # Figures of Earth
> # Gallantry, Dizain des Fetes Galantes
> # The Jewel Merchants, A Comedy in One Act
> # Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice
> # The Line of Love, Dizain des Mariages
> # The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck, A Comedy of Limitations
> # Taboo, A Legend Retold from the Dirghic of Sævius Nicanor,
> with Prolegomena, Notes, and a Preliminary Memoir

Some of the ones I don't have are in that list. But no thanks, Cabell
sometimes uses letters with diacritics, and all his books are
illustrated with charming head- and/or tailpieces.

> Wildside Press apparently has a few of his books in print:
> <http://www.wildsidepress.com/view_category.asp?cat=91>

I doubt they'll match the original red or green bindings, and the
original thick, soft paper, which no one has used in generations, or the
original feel of the letterpress.

(I tried reading one of Wm. Morris's romances in a Ballantine(?) pbk.,
but without the Kelmscott type and the pictures, it wasn't worth
bothering with. He did well to concentrate on design.)
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
.

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