Author: DOUGLAS, NORMAN
Title: Capri - Materials for a Description of the Island
Description: Florence, G Orioli. 1930, Limited. Blue Linen, 305mm. x 220mm. Book, 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]. Very Good.

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