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Forthcoming from Temporary Culture, publication date: November 2007

What Can Be Saved from the Wreckage?
James Branch Cabell in the Twenty-first Century
by
MICHAEL SWANWICK

with a preface, Jurgen Down Under, by BARRY HUMPHRIES

Critical monograph examining the writings of American fantasist
James Branch Cabell (1879-1958), author of Jurgen.
6 x 9 inches, 64 pp.

Subscribers issue, 17 numbered copies hand bound, signed by Michael
Swanwick and Barry Humphries, each copy with a leaf signed by James
Branch Cabell.
Please inquire for subscription price, which includes shipping within
the USA and a copy of the trade issue.
The book is in press now.

Trade issue, 200 copies in paper covers, cover image at:
http://www.avramdavidson.org/wreckage.html
ISBN : 0-9764660-3-1 / ISBN-13 : 978-0-9764660-3-1
$15.

MICHAEL SWANWICK is author of a monograph on the fantastical literature
of Hope Mirrlees. His novels include Bones of the Earth and In The
Drift, and his short story collections include Gravity's Angels and The
Dog Said Bow-Wow. The front cover, Storisende: collage for Michael
Swanwick, forms part of the Catalogue of Unique Works in the Library
and Private Collections of Michael Swanwick (forthcoming).

BARRY HUMPHRIES is an Australian National Treasure, known worldwide for
creating the role of Dame Edna.

“It is hard to imagine today the magnitude of James Branch Cabell’s
fame in the early part of the last century. Cabell’s books were Mark
Twain’s chief reading in the great humorist’s declining years. Theodore
Roosevelt received him at the White House. The occultist Aleister
Crowley harried him with fan letters. H. L. Mencken was his advocate.
Sinclair Lewis, accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930,
mentioned him as one of a number of writers who might reasonably have
won it.
“Yet he died as good as forgotten.”

from What Can Be Saved from the Wreckage? by Michael Swanwick

Henry Wessells