South Wind by Douglas Norman, Signed (22 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. SIGNED by illustrator. Limited edition, 202/1500. Hardcover, no dust jacket or slipcase. Pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. Binding is tight, Hinges strong. Covers show light edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!. Signed by Illustrator.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Limited edition. SIGNED by the illustrator. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. #245/1500. Secure packaging for safe delivery. signed by illustrator.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Special Edition. Quarto [ 8 1/4 c 11 1/4 inches ] neutral colored cloth, raised bands, contrasting label on spine, 205 pages with illustrations by Carlatta Petrina, signed by the artist, one of 1500 copies. First edition by the LEC with this artist. Signed by Author(s).

413 pp. With 12 color plates by Valenti Angelo. 8vo, publisher's decorated black cloth. First trade of this edition. The glossiness of the black cloth is disturbed on the front panel by tiny spotting; otherwise an attractive unworn copy. Signed by Valenti Angelo on the title page.

Limited Editions Club (illustrator). 4to. woven cloth, leather spine label, slipcase. (iv), 206 pages. Limited to 1500 numbered copies and signed by the illustrator, Carlotta Petrina (LEC 34). Designed and printed by Elmer Adler at the Pynson Printers. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. Spine of book slightly age darkened. Slipcase worn along edges with top detached. woven cloth, leather spine label, slipcase.

1st Edition in this form. Edition limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator - this copy is no. 333. Near fine copy bound in the original raw linen cloth. Professionally rebacked with the original spine, silver-blocked leather label and raised bands laid back. Spine bands and panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 205 pages; Physical description: 205 p. illus ; 29 cm. Notes: illustrated by Carlotta Petrina. With an introduction by Carl Van Doren. Referenced by: Sterling library, III, 360. Summary: Norman Douglas' famed novel of Capri is loved and derided in equal measure for its plot or lack thereof. A hedonistic journey through the hedonistic lives of the island's inhabitants, South Wind is a classic of gentle satire. Norman Douglas lived a long and scandalous life. Born in 1868, the son of a Scottish father and Austrian mother, he was a lifelong hedonist, and spent much of his time 'hopping it' across borders to avoid arrest. Douglas was at once the most irascible, intolerant and kindest of men. He was also a writer of near-genius. He died in 1952. Subjects: Capri (island) -- Fiction -- Satire. 2 Kg.

PETRINA, Carlotta (illustrator). DOUGLAS, Norman. South Wind. With a Special Introduction by Carl Van Doren. Illustrated by Carlotta Petrina. Orig. canvas with leather label on spine, in publisher's slipcase. N.Y.: The Limited Editions Club, 1932. Limited to 1,500 copies printed by the Pynson Printers and signed by the illustrator. Near fine copy lacking slipcase.

1st Edition in this form. Edition limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator - this copy is no. 333. Near fine copy bound in the original raw linen cloth. Professionally rebacked with the original spine, silver-blocked leather label and raised bands laid back. Spine bands and panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 205 pages; Physical description: 205 p. illus ; 29 cm. Notes: illustrated by Carlotta Petrina. With an introduction by Carl Van Doren. Referenced by: Sterling library, III, 360. Summary: Norman Douglas' famed novel of Capri is loved and derided in equal measure for its plot or lack thereof. A hedonistic journey through the hedonistic lives of the island's inhabitants, South Wind is a classic of gentle satire. Norman Douglas lived a long and scandalous life. Born in 1868, the son of a Scottish father and Austrian mother, he was a lifelong hedonist, and spent much of his time 'hopping it' across borders to avoid arrest. Douglas was at once the most irascible, intolerant and kindest of men. He was also a writer of near-genius. He died in 1952. Subjects: Capri (island) -- Fiction -- Satire. 2 Kg.

Hardcover. Illustrated by illus. Carlotta Petrina (illustrator). 1st thus. Fine in cracked slipcase; hardback; Limited ed. #442/1, 500 signed by artist.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. Carlotta Petrina (illustrator). Limited. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. Illustrated by Carlotta Petrina. 4to, beige cloth, black leather spine label, boxed. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1932. Near Fine. One of 1500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator.

hardcover. Carlotta Petrina (illustrator). Quarto (8-1/4" x 11-1/4") bound in full natural coarse linen with a leather label on the spine. Designed by Elmer Adler. Illustrated with drawings by Carlotta Petrina. Copy #1208 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Bookplate on front pastedown, still Fine in a Fine slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. British twentieth edition, third printing, 1942. No jacket. Signed, dedicated and dated by the author with personalized message to recipient directly to front end-paper in black ink. Brown boards with black lettering to spine are very good with a little pushing/bumping to corners, a few marks to front, little fading to spine, a few small bumps/rubs to edges and a little wear (pushing/rubbing/slight fraying to the cloth) to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Pages are a bit tanned. Odd small mark/spot of foxing/light scratch to page edges, tops and bottoms. Very occasional small mark/spot of foxing to pages. No other faults. A nice copy. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted. Signed by Author(s).

Valenti Angelo (illustrator). Large 8vo, 413. Red cloth, front flyleaf missing, limitation page and frontispiece loose, extremities of spine show some wear. One of 250 copies signed by Douglas, this copy unnumbered. TEG.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Limited edition hardcover # 169 of 250 copies, signed by both Douglas and Angelo to verso of the half title page. Red cloth/gilt, TEG, illustrated endpages. Bookplate. Minor foxing to front endpages. Trace rubbing to cloth at joints. The slipcase is worn. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; Signed by Author.

Full Cloth. Condition: Good. Second Edition. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Original full dark blue cloth with gilt ruled border and cross both boards. Minor chipping to head and foot of spine. Overall light wear with all corners are bumped and rubbed. Blue endsheets with previous owner's bookplate. Endsheet is split at gutter and there is slight age-toning to the endsheets. All pages are on blue paper with black ink. Signed by Norman Douglas. Numer 25 of 150 large-paper copies. GOOD condition. George Norman Douglas (December 8, 1868 - February 7, 1952) was a British writer, now best known for his 1917 novel South Wind. In the 1920s, perhaps piqued by D. H. Lawrence's success with Lady Chatterley, Norman Douglas published Some Limericks, an anthology of more-or-less obscene limericks with a mock-scholarly critical apparatus. This classic (of its kind) has been frequently republished, often without acknowledgement in pirate editions. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed. SIGNED; signed by author Norman Douglas. LIMITED EDITION; this is copy number 177 of 250 copies signed by the author. Hardcover. Lack slipcase. Red cloth boards with gilt stamped covers. Boards are worn, slight water stain to front cover with some discoloration, corners are worn, fraying to spine ends with sunning to spine. Light age-toning throughout. Minor water stains along at the bottom edge of a few pages, but does not affect text. Colored plates are bright. NO markings in text. Binding is cracked, but still holding. Otherwise a nice copy. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.

Unbound. Condition: Fine. Octavo. Single leaf folded to make eight pages printed on blue paper. Signed [5]-10 (printing the first six pages of text of Chapter 1 and the colophon. Fine. First page is printed: "One hundred and fifty large-paper copies signed by the author of which this is no. [not numbered] [signed in ink] Norman Douglas." Woolf makes no mention of having seen an example of this separate printed colophon eight-page quire, signed by Norman Douglas, issued for the limited signed issue of 'South Wind'; this was probably issued for promotional purposes or as an advance "sample" state of the book for internal use. Provenance: G. F. Sims (with original mailing envelope). *Connolly* 100 title [see *Woolf* A19b for the limited, signed issue of *South Wind*, which was printed in an edition of 150 numbered copies].

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Signed limited edition. Octavo. 464pp. Blue-black cloth gilt. Printed on blue paper. Bookseller ticket on rear pastedown. Binding lightly rubbed at the edges, delicate blue paper faintly sunned in the margins, near fine. One of 150 numbered copies Signed by Douglas. With a 1929 check to Douglas laid in, Signed by him on the verso (folded once, with bank's early cancel marks and deposit stamps). "The first de luxe issue of a book by Douglas (Woolf), and his best-known title. Connolly 100. Woolf A19b.

Leather. Condition: Very Good +. Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Limited edition. Limited to 40, this being number 38. Two volumes bound in one. A Very Good to Near Fine copy. 8vo., illustrated with color and b&w drawings and plates. Bound in half leather and blue silk over boards; title and decoration on the spine in gilt. Top edge gilt. Some very faint foxing to the blank end pages before the limitation page. SIGNED by Douglas and Austen below the original drawing on the half title page. Each copy of this edition contains an original, unreproduced drawing by John Austen, and is signed by both Austen and Norman Douglas. This copy's drawing is titled "The Count". A Very Good to Near Fine copy, handsomely bound. **** Ahern lists the 2 volumes in one variant as a desirable copy. ***.

Hardcover. Austen, John (illustrator). First illustrated edition. 288, 300 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Limited edition, one of 40 copies (this copy out of series) signed by Austen and Douglas with an original ink drawing, "A Clubland Habitué," signed by John Austen. Illustrated by Austen, 15 plates of which 5 are colored. Nepenthe, the Italian island is the fictional setting of South Wind, or Capri in light disguise. Norman was perhaps more well known for his scatological limericks rather than his Mediterranean travel works. One commentator noted, that in his day Douglas was regarded as one of the smartest things going. Part of that smartness was his keeping, for the whole of his long depraved life, one jump ahead of the law. Bright, sharp set, raised bands, spine panels lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled endapers. Three quarter red morocco and red cloth. Teg. Near fine. 2 vols.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. London, Martin Secker, 1922 [deluxe edition]/ [1917]. Octavo, [ii], 464 pages printed on blue paper watermarked 'Brookwood | British Made | Linen Bond'. Navy cloth lettered and ruled in gilt; fore- and bottom edges uncut; second half unopened; covers a little rubbed and flecked; endpapers a little browned; some slight discolouration about the edges of the text block; an excellent copy. Number 109 of 150 copies of this deluxe large-paper issue on blue paper signed by the author. Loosely inserted is an autograph postcard initialled by Norman Douglas, addressed to his friend Ralph Straus, prolific novelist and biographer: 'c/o T. Cook & Son, Via Tornabuoni, Florence. 2 July 1920. Hope you got mine of 22 and 27 [June]. No proofs have come as yet, tho' I expect them every day. They can send the whole lot in a batch. I will return them by the next post. Don't dream of correcting them yourself. I'll do it. And tell me how that operation went off. I am in the mountains, high up, but within reach of Cook's. N.D.'. The proofs in question were for 'They Went'. In his biography of Douglas, Mark Holloway writes: 'On the 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th and 19th [of July 1920] Straus was bombarded with postcards informing him that the proofs had not arrived, had probably got lost, ought to be replaced by ordering a new set, and that Douglas was fast melting into a grease spot in the heat. On the 22nd a letter to the same effect' (page 281). We can now add this postcard to the list! Straus had written an early positive review of 'South Wind', which proved to be Douglas' most popular title. In relation to this large-paper issue Douglas wrote to the publisher Martin Secker, encouraging him to increase the proposed price, and to consider increasing the print run: 'People who are so wasteful as to spend two [guineas] could easily screw themselves up to three . [You could] easily risk printing 150 copies at three guineas; you might consider, even, whether 200 would not meet the case. There are so many Americans and lunatics about just now'. He was pleased with the result, describing it as 'Very choicely got up! Distinguished' (quoted in Holloway, page 308). Woolf A19b ('The first de luxe issue of a book by Douglas').

First edition thus. 4to. 2 volumes. 288; 300 pp. lllustrations by John Austin. 1 of 40 copies. Signed. Unbound, gatherings in very good condition, in custom made labeled slipcase. (Woolf 19, I) / (93429). Signed by Douglas and Austen on half-title page below an original drawing by Austen titled Nepenthe.â "Trade edition: two volumes in one, bound together in half-leather over cloth covered boards, gilt lettered, decorative spine, raised bands, t.e.g., very good condition.