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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.

South Wind, published in 1917, is a famed satirical novel by Norman Douglas that examines the societal norms of a small fictitious island off Italy's coast.