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Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 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].
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Douglas, Norman. South Wind. Martin Secker, London, 1922.
Price: US$645.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 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
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
DOUGLAS, Norman. South Wind. Martin Secker, (London), 1922.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 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.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
DOUGLAS, Norman.. South Wind.. London: Martin Secker, 1922, 1922.
Price: US$962.45 + shipping
Description: Number 17 of 150 large paper copies printed on blue paper and signed by the author; it is "the first deluxe issue of a book by Douglas" (Woolf) and a stylish production. This is Douglas's best-known book and it enjoyed "an immediate success. Its ironic questioning of conventional morality appealed to a war-weary public, and its humane values were praised by Virginia Woolf in the Times Literary Supplement" (ODNB). Cyril Connolly remarks, "it is an astonishingly civilised and good-humoured book, full of Douglas's sanity and cobweb-sweeping charm. It contains the first futile young man, a Twenties prototype. Douglas's cackle is still infectious". Provenance: inscribed on the front free endpaper, "From the staff of the Dartmouth College Library, to William H. McCarter, Persona Grata"; McCarter (1898-1959) was an American academic who graduated from Dartmouth in 1919 and became professor of English there. Connolly, Modern Movement 28; Woolf A19b. Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine gilt, covers decorated with intersecting parallel lines, all edges blue and untrimmed. Printed throughout on light blue paper. Spine slightly cocked and with shallow crease running its length. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
DOUGLAS, Norman. South Wind. Martin Secker, London, 1922.
Price: US$1003.81 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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').
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia