[Rarebooks] FS: Some Interesting Norman Douglas, recently cataloged

[Charles Agvent]

DOUGLAS, Norman. CAPRI. MATERIALS FOR THE DESCRIPTION OF THE ISLAND. 
Florence: G. Orioli, 1930. First Edition. Large octavo (7" x 10-1/4") 
bound in cloth-backed heavy blue boards; xvi, 365 pages. Issued as "The 
Lungarno Series" No. 3. Illustrated throughout. Copy #290 of an edition 
of 525 numbered copies SIGNED by the author. Owner name on front 
pastedown; front free endpaper lacking. Spine rubbed with much of the 
leather label missing; covers a bit soiled. Solid, near Very Good copy. 
(#017111)        $250.00

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DOUGLAS, Norman. PANEROS. SOME WORDS ON APHRODISIACS AND THE LIKE. New 
York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1932. First American Edition. Also 
the First Illustrated Edition. Copy #574 of an edition of 750 numbered 
copies illustrated with woodcuts by Robert Rotter. Owner name on front 
pastedown beneath glassine flap. Near Fine in scarce glassine and a Very 
Good slipcase, a little rubbed with splits to the top edge. (#017110)    
     $50.00

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BEY, Pilaff (Norman DOUGLAS, Editor). VENUS IN THE KITCHEN OR LOVE'S 
COOKERY BOOK. London: William Heinemann Ltd., (1952). First Edition. 
Edited by Norman Douglas with a 4-page Introduction by Graham Greene, 
its first appearance in print. Illustrated with a photograph 
frontispiece and charming decorations throughout by Bruce Roberts. Laid 
in is the original 1952 receipt from Blackwell's. Owner initials on 
front pastedown beneath dustwrapper flap; "Overseas Edition" stamped on 
rear pastedown. Near Fine in a lightly worn and fairly scarce, Near Fine 
dustwrapper. (#017109)        $75.00

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CUNARD, Nancy. GRAND MAN: MEMORIES OF NORMAN DOUGLAS. London: Secker & 
Warburg, 1954. First Edition. An affectionate and highly personal 
recollection of one individualist of another. With extracts from his 
Letters, appreciations by Kenneth Macpherson, Harold Acton, Arthur 
Johnson, Charles Duff, and Victor Cunard, and a biographical note by 
Cecil Woolf. Illustrated with photographs. Owner initials on front 
pastedown beneath dustwrapper flap. Near Fine in a lightly worn, Near 
Fine dustwrapper. (#017108)        $45.00

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