One of the world’s greatest satires!

JURGEN
A Comedy of Justice

BY

James Branch Cabell

With Wood Engraving by
John Buckland Wright

Printed in England at
The Golden Cockerel Press

1949

DESCRIPTION OF BOOK:
Hardcover, 417/400 COPIES (of an edition of 500 copies) printed on mould-made paper, wood-engraved floral border and vignette on the title-page, and 16 additional full-page wood-engravings by John Buckland Wright. Cover is half green, half red with a gilt decoration of a couple on the front, design by Buckland Wright. One of the world‘s greatest satires, but also among its best romances. Sir Hugh Walpole said of it that he knew of "no book in the English language that colours one’s imagination and fancy quite as this one does. The world of Jurgen with its grotesquerie, its sudden beauty, its poverty and its pity, its adventure and romance, is a world descended from earlier worlds but unique of its own period."

There are 16 plates.
The book is 7“ wide x 10 1/4“ high.

There are 349 pages.

DESCRIPTION OF CONDITION:
This volume is in excellent condition. The back cover shows a bit of wear from scraping, but otherwise it is a clean bright copy, with only a small pencil notation of “first ed” on the inside front cover.

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AUTHOR’S BIOGRAPHY:
James Branch Cabell (April 14, 1879 - May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. While Cabell's surname is often mispronounced "Ka-BELL", he himself pronounced it "CAB-ble". To remind an editor of the correct pronunciation, Cabell composed this rhyme: "Tell the rabble my name is Cabell."

Cabell was born and lived most of his life in Richmond, Virginia; though he wintered in Florida until the death of his first wife in 1949, and eventually retired there. He matriculated at the College of William and Mary in 1894 at the age of fifteen and graduated in 1898. While an undergraduate, Cabell taught French and Greek at the College.

He worked from 1898 to 1900 as a newspaper reporter in New York City, but returned to Richmond in 1901, where he continued to work as a reporter. 1901 was an eventful year for Cabell: his first stories were accepted for publication, and he was suspected of the murder of John Scott, a wealthy Richmonder. In 1902, seven of his first stories appeared in national magazines.

Between 1911 and 1913, he was employed by his uncle in the office of the Branch coalmines in West Virginia. On November 8, 1913, he married Priscilla Bradley Shepherd. In 1915 a son, Ballard Hartwell Cabell, was born. Priscilla died in March of 1949; Cabell remarried in June of 1950 to Margaret Waller Freeman.

During his life, he published fifty-two books, including novels, genealogy, collections of short stories, poetry, and miscellanea. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1937. Today, the modern languages house and an endowed law professorship at the College of William and Mary are named in his honor.

Cabell died of a cerebral hemorrhage. He is buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond. In 1970, Virginia Commonwealth University, also located in Richmond, named its main campus library "James Branch Cabell Library" in his honor, and the undergraduate literary journal at the university is named Poictesme after the fictional province in his novel Jurgen.