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D Items: Translations by Jack Kahane

Neil Pearson
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Title page

PRINCES OF | THE NIGHT | By | JOSEPH KESSEL | Translated by | JACK KAHANE | [logo] | LONDON | THE RICHARDS PRESS LTD. | PUBLISHERS

Collation

8vo. [x] 9–320 + [xxii]. 19.7 × 13 cm. Edges trimmed, top edge stained green.

Pagination

[i–iv] blank; [v] half-title; [vi] blank; [vii] title-page; [viii] imprimerie: PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY | M. P. ROBINSON & CO. LTD. AT THE LIBRARY PRESS LOWESTOFT; [ix] section heading; [x] blank; 9–320 text; [321–339] publisher's advertisements, dated on [321] Autumn 1928 and [323–339] paginated 3–19; [340–342] blank.

Binding

Green boards, lettered in black.

Front panel: Princes of the Night

Spine: PRINCES | OF THE | NIGHT | JOSEPH | KESSEL

Rear panel: Blank.

Wrapper

Front panel: Blue, with pictorial central panel, bordered in dark blue, depicting a solitary woman with dancing couples in the background. Illustration is signed M. Leone. PRINCES OF THE NIGHT [dark blue] | [illustration] | by JOSEPH KESSEL [dark blue] [‘OF’ printed above ‘THE’ in title]

Spine: White. PRINCES | OF THE | NIGHT | JOSEPH | KESSEL | Translated by | JACK KAHANE | [logo] | RICHARDS [blue]

Rear panel: White. Advertisement for five forthcoming Richards Press titles [blue]

Front flap: Title, author blurb and price [7/6].

Rear flap: Blank.

Publication

1928

Notes

First English edition.

Precedence between this title and D–1(b) is not known.

(b) PRINCES OF THE NIGHT

pub. THE MACAULAY COMPANY, NEW YORK

Title page

PRINCES OF | THE NIGHT | BY | JOSEPH KESSEL | Translated by | JACK KAHANE | NEW YORK | THE MACAULAY COMPANY | PUBLISHERS

Collation

8vo. [viii] 7–288 + [ii]. 19.6 × 13.3 cm. Top edge trimmed, others untrimmed.

Pagination

[i–ii] blank; [iii] half-title; [iv] blank; [v] title-page; [vi] copyright; [vii] section heading; [viii] blank; 7–288 text; [289–290] blank.

Binding

Black boards.

Front panel: Russian cityscape on lower half, continuing on spine [lilac]. PRINCES | OF THE | NIGHT | BY | JOSEPH KESSEL [lilac]

Spine: PRINCES | OF THE | NIGHT [black, enclosed in lilac box] | BY | JOSEPH | KESSEL [lilac] | MACAULAY [black on lilac]

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Obelisk
A History of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press
 , pp. 307 - 312
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Print publication year: 2007

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