THE HIGH PLACE: A COMEDY OF DISENCHANTMENT. New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1923. Large octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] [1-2] 3-312, eight inserted plates with illustrations by Frank C. Pape, original decorated black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, pictorial endpapers illustrated by Papé, top edge stained red, other edges untrimmed. First edition. Copy 606 of 2000 numbered copies. A section of Cabell's sprawling Biography of the Life of Manuel, the most famous (or infamous) installment of which was JURGEN. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-66. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 324. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 176. Bleiler (1978), p. 37. Reginald 02400. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket priced $7.50 on the front flap with wear and shallow chipping along the top and bottom edges and chip from the center of the spine panel. A lovely copy. (#177022).
Price: $150.00
"This First Edition of THE / HIGH PLACE is limited to / two thousand numbered copies, / ... / Published, 1923" on copyright page.