- Publication: The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of EvasionsPublication Record # 594136
- Author: James Branch Cabell
- Date: date unknown
- Publisher: Modern Library
- Pub. Series: The Modern Library of the World's Best Books
- Pub. Series #: 126
- Pages: xii+250
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Format: hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
- Type: NOVEL
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Notes: Third printing per Hall's James Branch Cabell: A Complete Bibliography. This edition can be distinguished from the first printing by the author's names in the advertising material at the back of the book which appear in all capitals. This printing no longer has the "First Modern Library Edition" statement on the verso of the title page. The copyright statement is still present.
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- ix • Introduction (The Cream of the Jest) • (1922) • essay by Harold Ward
- 3 • The Cream of the Jest • [Biography of the Life of Manuel • 18] • (1917) • novel by James Branch Cabell