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Douglas, Norman.. CAPRI Materials for a Description of The Island.. G. Orioli. Florence, 1930.

Price: US$357.38 + shipping

Description: 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$349

Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom

Douglas, Norman. Capri: Materials for a Description (SIGNED). G. Orioli, Florence, Italy, 1930.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 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.

Seller: Russian Hill Bookstore, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Douglas, Norman. Capri: Materials For A Description Of The Island. G. Orioli, Florence, 1930.

Price: US$575.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: $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.

Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.

DOUGLAS, Norman.. Capri - Materials for a Description of the Island.. G. Orioli, Florence., 1930.

Price: US$747.24 + shipping

Description: 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.

Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom

Norman Douglas. Capri. Materials for a Description of the Island.. G.Orioli. Florence, 1930.

Price: US$779.73 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 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.

Seller: Barracks Books, Nash, United Kingdom

DOUGLAS, Norman. Capri: Materials for a Description of the Island. G. Orioli, Florence, 1930.

Price: US$850.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 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.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Douglas, Norman.. Capri. Materials for a Description of the Island.. G. Orioli., Florence, 1930.

Price: US$850.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 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

Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.

Douglas, Norman. Capri - Materials for a Description of the Island. G Orioli, Florence, 1930.

Price: US$974.66 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: xvi, 365, [1] pages, 23 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait quarter length sepia gravure of Douglas, signed in ink, with tissue guard, facing page [iii]. Very good, in original coarse sky blue cloth with blue/gilt leather title label, spine sunned, some staining to boards, contents fine, unmarked, fore and bottom edges uncut. One of 103 unnumbered copies printed for the 100 subscribers listed, which included Harold Acton, Max Beerbohm, Arnold Bennett, Lord Berners, Calvin Coolidge, Nancy Cunard, D H Lawrence, Mrs Cole Porter, Arthur Rubinstein, H G Wells, etc. "This edition on Binda hand-made paper is limited to the discriminating subscribers whose names figure in the following list. This, the De Luxe issue, was printed from the same plates as the limited and signed issue of 525 copies'' Woolf, A33b. [16328/762] Size: 305mm. x 220mm.

Seller: William Glynn, Reydon, United Kingdom

Douglas, Norman. Capri - Materials for a Description of the Island. G Orioli, Florence, 1930.

Price: US$1104.61 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: xvi, 365, [1] pages, 23 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait quarter length sepia gravure of Douglas, signed in ink, with tissue guard, facing page [iii]. Very good, in original coarse sky blue cloth with blue/gilt leather title label, spine sunned as usual, bumping, fading to boards, contents fine, unmarked, fore and bottom edges uncut. One of 103 unnumbered copies printed for the 100 subscribers listed, which included Harold Acton, Max Beerbohm, Arnold Bennett, Lord Berners, Calvin Coolidge, Nancy Cunard, D H Lawrence, Mrs Cole Porter, Arthur Rubinstein, H G Wells, etc. "This edition on Binda hand-made paper is limited to the discriminating subscribers whose names figure in the following list. This, the De Luxe issue, was printed from the same plates as the limited and signed issue of 525 copies'' Woolf, A33b. [686] Size: 305mm. x 220mm.

Seller: William Glynn, Reydon, United Kingdom