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James Branch Cabell. The White Robe: A Saints Summary. Bodley Head, 1928.

Price: US$13.97 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1928-01-01. Bodley Head. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE No DJ. Edgewear. Rubbed.

Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom

James Branch Cabell. The White Robe: A Saints Summary. Bodley Head, 1928.

Price: US$22.02 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 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.

Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom

CABELL, James Branch.. The White Robe. A Saint's Summary.. , 1928.

Price: US$33.59 + shipping

Description: London: The Bodley Head, (1928). Sm. 4to. Orig. qtr. calf and paper over oak panels (spine and extremities slightly worn). (80pp.). With 8 full-page plates by Robert E. Locher. Title-page printed in red/black. A lim. ed. of 200 copies printed on Italian hand-made paper, this being No. 152. Untrimmed.

Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia

CABELL, James Branch.. The White Robe. A Saint's Summary.. , 1928.

Price: US$33.59 + shipping

Description: London: The Bodley Head, (1928). Sm. 4to. Orig. qtr. calf and paper over oak panels (spine and extremities slightly worn). (80pp.). With 8 full-page plates by Robert E. Locher. Title-page printed in red/black. A lim. ed. printed on Italian hand-made paper. Untrimmed.

Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia

Cabell, James Branch. The White Robe. A Saint's Summary.. John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., 1928.

Price: US$36.39 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Number 47 of a limited edition of 200 copies. pp un numbered, 8 full page plates. Pages unopened. Internally fine. Very good hardback in slightly rubbed and faded, quarter calf on mock ? wooden boards in similar slipcase.

Seller: Elaine Beardsell, HOLMFIRTH, United Kingdom

Cabell, James Branch. WHITE ROBE, THE. John Lane the Bodley Head, London (1928), 1928.

Price: US$76.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: (1928) Of this volume 'The White Robe". 200 copies have been printed from type in October, 1928, for sale in England and the type has been destroyed, of which this is number 63. Illustrated by Robert E. Locher. Designed By William Dana Orcutt. Cover is a modern adaptation of medieval leather and oaken-board binding. gilt lettering covering in one piece, gilt letters. In a paper covered slipcase printed to imitate wood. Spine is rubbed. but still Handsome. Picture

Seller: The Antiquarian Shop, Bend, OR, U.S.A.

CABELL James Branch. The White Robe A Saints Summary. John Lane at the Bodley Head, London, 1928.

Price: US$77.97 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Unpaginated, pages uncut. Wood effect boards w brown leather spine in a matching slip-case. Light wear around the edges. No 52 in a LIMITED EDITION of 200. Contents clean, tight and bright, a very nice copy.

Seller: David Kenyon, King's Lynn, United Kingdom

CABELL,, James Branch.. THE WHITE ROBE. A Saint's Summary.. London, The Bodley Head 1928., 1928.

Price: US$88.69 + shipping

Description: [c.80]pp. 4to. Original 'woodgrain' papered boards with somewhat rubbed calf spine. Boards have a few bumps to edges. Some foxing to foredge, otherwise a very good copy. Numbered 160 of 200 copies printed . Illustrated.

Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia

James Branch Cabell. The White Rose a Saint's Summary. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1928.

Price: US$90.97 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A limited edition copy of this interesting novella about heaven and hell by the fantasy writer James Branch Cabell, illustrated throughout by Robert E. Locher. A limited edition work, limited to two-hundred copies, of which this is numbered one-hundred and eighty-night.In the original slipcase. Slipcase in a good condition.A brief and thought-provoking novella, following Blakc Odo who repents after killing young women and it made a saint.Written by James Branch Cabell, an American fantasy author who was very popular for his escapist yet satirical work in the 1920s.Illustrated throughout by Robert E. Locher.Prior owner's stamp to the recto to the front endpaper. In the original publisher's quarter morocco binding with wood-patterned paper to the boards, in the original wood-patterned paper slipcase. Externally, generally smart. Light rubbing to the spine. A little bumping to the extremities. A little loss to the spine. A couple of minor marks to the boards. Slipcase is a little worn with some tears to the extremities. A few light marks to the slipcase. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Slipcase in a good condition. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom