Books

First Edition Thus. Signed. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 464. 'Special Edition' on blue paper number 127 of 150 copies signed by Norman Douglas. Original blue cloth lettered gilt at spine and gilt lined on covers. with intersecting parallel lines, all edges blue and untrimmed. Printed throughout on light blue paper. Number 28 in Connolly's 'Modern Movement.' Blue endpapers slightly tanned. Faint 'ding' at spine o/w very good indeed in slightly used printed d/w a little chipped at edges with slight loss at edges and some minor internal re-inforcement, overall near vg. The jacket is highly uncommon.

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.