Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Key to Reference Works
- A Very British Pornographer: The Life of Jack Kahane
- A Items: Books Published by Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press
- B Items: Ephemera of the Obelisk Press
- C Items: The Plays, Novels, Short Fiction and Non-Fiction of Jack Kahane
- D Items: Translations by Jack Kahane
- Author Biographies
- Picture Credits
- Works Consulted
- Index of Obelisk Authors
- Plates
D Items: Translations by Jack Kahane
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Key to Reference Works
- A Very British Pornographer: The Life of Jack Kahane
- A Items: Books Published by Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press
- B Items: Ephemera of the Obelisk Press
- C Items: The Plays, Novels, Short Fiction and Non-Fiction of Jack Kahane
- D Items: Translations by Jack Kahane
- Author Biographies
- Picture Credits
- Works Consulted
- Index of Obelisk Authors
- Plates
Summary
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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- Information
- ObeliskA History of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press, pp. 307 - 312Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2007