Capri by Douglas, Signed (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Plates, Illustrations In Text (illustrator). 1st Edition. $410 Of A Limited Edition Of 525 Copies Of Which 500 Were For Sale (There Was Also A Deluxe Subscribers' Edition Of 100). Green Burlap Spine, Violet Boards Thus Unlike Other Copies In Green Burlap With Blue Boards), Black Morocco Spine Label, Gilt, Double Rules At Top And Bottom (Perhaps A Facsimile Of The Original Label, Which Had Single Rules). Inscribed "To My 'Chester Boy' From Mother July 5, 1932." Fine, No Wear, Binding Very Similar To Original But May Well Be An Excellent Facsimile. Pages Clean And Unworn, But Browning At Edges. Signed by Author(s).

1st Ed. Royal 8vo. 365pp. + [i]. T.p. device, 22 plates, blue plate of the Blue Grotto, several tipped in ills. Marginal browning, cloth backed boards, some fading particularly to spine, faded and rubbed label to spine, extremities rubbed with sl. loss to lower leading corner. No. 99 of 500 Copies (of a Larger Limitation of 525), Signed by the Author. US$371.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Signed Edition. 365 pages, 4to. No dust-jacket. Limited Edition of 525 numbered and signed copies, of which this is copy no.17. SIGNED by the author Norman Douglas on limited page. The Lungarno Series, No.3. Light blue cloth boards with dark blue cloth spine, dark blue leather title box along spine with gilt lettering. Shelfwear: scuffing along edges and covers, fading on cover boards and spine, some light smudges on cover boards, light tanning along page edges. Nearly all page leafs remain uncut. Tightly bound, no marks. Volume is in Very Good condition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Materials for the description of the island. Blue canvas boards. Bookplate. Spine and upper edges faded, otherwise very nice. Florence; G. Orioli, 1930. One of 100 large paper copies printed for subscribers only and signed by the author. The subscribers are listed alphabetically and include Acton, Beerbohm, Arnold Berrett, Berners, Calvin Coolidge, Nancy Cunard, Alfred Knopf, D.H. Lawrence, Mavrogordato, Mrs. Cole Porter, Arthur Rubinstein, Booth Tarkington, H.G. Wells. Signed by Author(s).

First edition. Issued as the third title in the Lungarno Series. Quarto. 365 pages. Twenty-three plates. Two mounted plates in the text. Coarse cloth-backed boards with leather title label on the spine. Collected edition of ten rare pamphlets. Number 280 of 525 copies numbered and signed by the author.As usual, some fading to edges of covers and spine. Very good indeed.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED COPY, WITH THREE LETTERS, TWO POSTCARDS AND A PHOTOGRAPH OF DOUGLAS Materials for a Description of the Island. Photographic frontispiece and 22 plates. First Edition. Large 8vo. [263 x 183 x 48 mm]. xvi, 365, [1] pp. Bound in the original sky-blue manilla paper boards, sky-blue cloth spine, lettered in gilt on a blue leather label, uncut and unopened edges, in original glassine paper wrappers (torn with loss). [ebc7975] Florence: G. Orioli, 1930. Woolf A 33. No.6 of 525 copies signed by the author. 500 were for sale priced at 30s. A very good copy, with just a little light spotting on the edges. It is inscribed in green ink on the front endleaf: "For Stephen Clark hoping that these pages - if he succeeds in reading them - may soon persuade him to return to Capri from Norman Douglas. Capri. Nov. 1950". There are also three letters from Douglas to Clark, two inscribed postcards (of Capri and Douglas with Carmelina, the once famous tarantella dancer) and an inscribed photograph of Douglas at the age of 82 with his bust at the age of 10. Stephen Clark (1913-2011) was the great-grandson of James Clark who in 1833 went into partnership with his brother Cyrus to create the world-famous shoe manufacturing firm of C. & J. Clark of Street in Somerset. Clark was a great admirer and collector of Norman Douglas, and the author was keen to encourage his enthusiasm. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Quarter cloth and papercovered boards, with leather spine label in gilt partially unopened. About near fine wear to bottom of spine, sunning, and some soiling to the front board and spine. One of 525 numbered copies Signed by the author. This is copy 308.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Signed by the author. First Edition 1930, limited to 525 copies of which 500 were for sale. This is No. 443.  Very Good as issued in original light blue paper covered boards backed with blue linen. Blue calf label to spine with border and titles in gilt. No dust jacket as issued but now protected by clear acetate. Published by G.Orioli in Florence. Quarto. pp.365 including index, 23 b&w illustrations and 1 colour engraving of the Blue Grotto. Uncut. Binding in good clean condition, with uneven sunning as is common with this edition. The binding is sound, and the rear hinge has been strengthened professionally. Corners are sharp with some loss to the covering paper at the points. Internally clean and unmarked, with no previous owner's name or bookplates. Pages fresh and bright, many unopened, including limitation page with Norman Douglas's signature. A very nice copy that has been well looked after but clearly never read. Note: The book is heavy and will require extra postage if shipped outside UK. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 1/525 copies (of which 500 were for sale), Numbered, and SIGNED by the Author on a preliminary limitation page, bound in pale clothbacked heavy boards, light blue paper, without jacket as issued. Very Good. Spine and parts of front board faded, dark blue spine label rubbed at edges, cloth at spine-ends lightly abraded, upper fore-edges of boards bumped. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. Bookplate front pastedown. 324pp, Index. Twenty-three monochrome illustrations, some mounted. Inspired historical and geographical chapters. Q03732.

Edition of 250 copies. Edition of 250 copies. Each work with separate title page. Pp. [ii], [99]-151. 1 vols. 8vo. Three Monographs consists of the fourth, fifth and sixth of the Capri pamphlets, issued anonymously by Douglas, with a separate title page for each monograph and paginated continuously. Inscribed on the first title page, "To J.E. Brooks from Norman Douglas", and with numerous autograph corrections in the text, chiefly correcting typographical errors and occasionally striking a word. At p. 113, is written "Omit?" beside item 26, which reads, "Municipal and other Archives of Capri have been sold as waste paper so often, that nothing remains of them." The topic is covered in item 12. J. E. Brooks was the husband of "painter and lesbian icon" Romaine Brooks. He had known Somerset Maugham since student days in Heidelberg and they shared for a time the Villa Cercola. "Capri in particular at this time was a haven for wealthy British homosexual men, particularly artists and writers, who were avoiding Britain in the wake of Oscar Wilde's trial, and here from 1899 onward she met such writers as Somerset Maugham and E. F. Benson, as well as John Ellingham Brooks (1863-1929), with whom she struck up a friendship. She married Brooks on Capri on 13 June 1903, thereby incidentally acquiring British citizenship" (ODNB). The marriage lasted only a year but she settled an income on him. "Brooks may have served as the original of Mr. Ernest Eames" in South Wind (Edward Nehls, D.H. Lawrence: a composite biography, 1958). In 'Looking Back', Maugham identifies the young man who was the basis for Hayward as "Ellingham" (see R.L. Calder, W. Somerset Maugham and the Quest for Freedom, London: Heinemann, 1972, p. 100). Douglas dedicated his privately printed Birds and Beasts of the Greek Anthology (1927) to Brooks. Reginald Baliol Brett, second Viscount Esher (1852-1930) was a statesman and intimate of the court of Queen Victoria and a longtime member of public committees and behind-the-scenes "fixer". This is a superior copy with distinguished provenance. Woolf A10 Original blue grey wrappers. Cloth folding slipcase. Esher bookplate Each work with separate title page. Pp. [ii], [99]-151. 1 vols. 8vo.