The Silver Stallion
New York: Robert M. McBride, (1926).
Price: $55.00
Hardcover. First edition. Fine in good dustwrapper with a large chip to the front panel affecting the title as well as other chipping and tanning. The story of events in Poictesme in the days following Dom Manuel's journey westward with Grandfather Death. Edmund Wilson compared Cabell's Poictesme cycle favorably to Tolkien's Middle Earth, and while there may be a legion of Tolkien fans who cry nay – they probably haven't read the Poictesme stories.
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James Branch Cabell
birth name: James Branch Cabell
born: 4/14/1879
died: 5/5/1958
Biography
To remind an editor of the correct pronunciation of his name Cabell wrote: "Tell the rabble my name is Cabell."more