The High Place

Overview:

  • Title: The High Place
  • Author: James Branch Cabell
  • Year: 1979
  • ISBN-10: 0345282841
  • Publisher: Del Rey / Ballantine
  • Price: $2.25
  • Pages: xxii+234
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: The High Place
  • Notes:
    • "Second printing: August, 1979"
    • No printing number line in book.
    • Copyright 1923, 1928 by James Branch Cabell.
    • Copyright renewed 1950 by James Branch Cabell.
    • "Ballantine edition printed from the Storisende Edition." on copyright page.
    • First U. S. edition February 1970.
    • "Cover art by Howard Koslow" on copyright page. Signature not found. Art is on the lower half of front cover and extends to the lower half of back cover.
    • "Illustrations by Frank C. PapĂ©." on title page. Art is chapter ornament style with small drawings at start and end of each chapter. Signature not found.
    • Map on page viii, not clearly titled, signed "Peter Koch-20" at bottom right map. + Map is copyright 1928, so probably reads "Peter Koch-28". Unable to determine when this was first published, was not part of the first printing, so attributing the date of the second printing to the map. The same map appears in the six Del Rey second printings - DH.