Looking Back Autobiographical Excursion by Douglas, Signed (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Publisher's gilt-titled cloth-backed decorative boards, beveled edges, TEG. Rough cut page edges. Limited edition #456 of 500 copies signed by Douglas to the limitation page. Corner wear to boards. Offsetting and tape marks to the endpages. Hinges mildly starting V1. Gilt dulled. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Limited Edition. 527p octavo, illustrated. A very good set in good dust jackets, spine darkened, lightly chippedat corners and spine heads, dust soiled.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Two volumes. Large octavos. xii, 268; [vii] 269-528pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Red cloth spines, decorative paper-covered boards. Top edges gilt. Corners moderately edgeworn, offsetting and toning on flyleaves, owner bookplate ("Edward Chapman") on front pastedown of Volume two, overall about near fine, lacking the dust jackets. Limited edition of 535 numbered sets. This is number 349 Signed by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Two volumes. Large octavo. xii, 268; [vii], 269-528pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Red cloth spines, decorative paper-covered boards. Top edges gilt. Near fine with toning to the topedges, offsetting to the pastedowns and bookplate in volume one in very good dust jackets with toning to the spines, some foxing and moderate edgewear including small tears, nicks and creases. Limited edition of 535 numbered sets. This is number 322 Signed by the author.

Signed limited edition of this work by the author of South Wind. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth, this is number 213 of an edition limited to 535 sets, 500 of which were for sale, signed by Norman Douglas. In near fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First Edition. 8vo. Original half cloth and paperd boards. Dust jackets. Uncut pages. Limited issue, number 379 of 535 copies, first volume signed on the limitation page. Uncommon publisher's prospectus laid in. Provenance: From the library of noted book collector William A. Strutz.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Signed. First Edition. Limited to 535 sets SIGNED BY AUTHOR, 500 of which were for sale, this being set 134. Pages clean and bright, no markings. light rubbing to board edges. Dust jacket have some edgewear and a few chips. Top edges gilt. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

The author's illustrated collection of prescient memoirs, which includes one of the more prescient perspectives on Jacques Adelsward Fersen. One of 500 special signed and numbered copies, very good in buckram and patterned paper boards, end papers browned.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A fine set of this edition. Attractively bound in red buckram over patterned boards. In fine condition, printed on handmade paper. This is numbered 5, signed by the author. The dust jackets are quite nice too, without any edgewear, with slightly darkened spines. The books and jackets are then protected by gorgeous cloth dust jackets also in fine condition, and there is a matching slipcase too. Whether these were part of a small deluxe author private edition, or whether these are aftermarket, I cannot claim to know. Signed by Author(s).

No. 61 of 535 copies, signed by the author in vol. I. Eight plates. 527 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Woolf A36 Red cloth shelfback and orange patterned paper boards, t.e.g., others uncut. Very good plus Eight plates. 527 pp. 2 vols. 8vo No. 61 of 535 copies, signed by the author in vol. I. Signed.

First one-volume edition, first impression. Looking back was first published as a signed limited edition of two volumes in 1933. Octavo. 8 black and white plates. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge dyed brown. With dust jacket. Contemporary New York bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown. Boards very faintly bowed, corners of boards lightly bumped, spotting to fore edge, occasional foxing to margins of text and plates, small crease to fore margin of early leaves. A very good copy in the lightly marked price-clipped jacket with faint rubbing to head and tail of spine panel.

First Edition. In two volumes. Pp. xii+268+viii+269-528(last colophon), title page decoration both volumes, plus a total of 8 collotype plates, index Volume II; med. 8vo; qr. red buckram, spines lettered in gilt, red & white patterned papered boards over bevelled edges, the spine of Volume II faintly creased at foot; t.e.g., others uncut; dust wrappers, slightly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed and split, extremities browned (heavier on backstrips); bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedowns, the free endpapers slightly offset, with a heavier patch in Volume I due to a loosely inserted related newscutting; Chatto & Windus, London, 1933. First edition, limited to 535 numbered sets (500 for sale), signed by the author. Woolf A36a. *From the library of David Levine, Sydney, with his book label above the earlier bookplate of H. B. Muir on the upper pastedowns. The edition was sold out before publication. With loosely inserted related ephemera, including a prospectus for Norman Douglas by Richard McGillivray (published by G. Orioli, Florence, in 1933), and a reproduction of a photograph of Norman Douglas standing in front of Skyros Castle with a Greek priest and a gendarme. 'Richard McGillivray' was the pseudonym of British archaeologist Richard MacGillivray Dawkins (1871 - 1955). Signed.