These Restless Heads: A Trilogy of Romantics

New York: The Literary Guild, 1932. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Samuel Bernard Scheffer. Type: Hardback Second Printing Before Publication. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. Decorative illustrations by Samuel Bernard Schaeffer. Binding of black quarter cloth with faded gold titles on spine, decorative black/white patterned cloth-wrapped boards, clean and unmarked. Corners lightly scuffed, spine head cloth has two tears on the edge. rear spine hinge has a one inch slit. Sewn binding tight & solid. Paste-down with residue from a small circular tag. Frontis black and white illustration. Pages are quite clean and unmarked, toned. Rough cut on fore edge and lower edge. Some of chapter first letters are illustrated. James Branch Cabell (1879- 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction. Although escapist literature, his works are ironic and satirical. All of Cabell's works before 1930 were assembled into the grand "Biography of the Life of Manuel", the redeemer of the imaginary land of Poictesme. These are tales of Poictesme where chilvary and gallantry are alive and well; the series follows Manuel and his descendents. In this work, the author's name is truncated to distinguish it from the volumes that make up this Biography of the Life of Manuel. 253 pages. 5.6 x 8.25 inches. The Literary Guild, New York, 1932.