Notes on Wilder's The Cabala

Wilder's Cabala, entering the Modern Library series in April 1929, was the first title in Toledano binding style 5, designed by Rockwell Kent.

While this title was the first to use Kent endpapers, the first printing appeared with Bernhard endpapers.

First copyright page text:     First Modern Library Edition

First binding style:     5

First inverse DJ number:    159

First list entries:     Dostoyevsky, Brothers Karamazov, but not
                                 Chaucer, Canterbury Tales

Dates in print:     1929 (April) - 1936

Toledano number:    155.1

GT42

Confirmed buckram sighting?            no

Intro author:     Herbert Gorman for the ML edition

Genre:     Novel

Original language:      English

Thanks to the contributors:
Henry Toledano Barry Neavill

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