Capri. DOUGLAS (Norman).

INSCRIBED COPY, WITH THREE LETTERS, TWO POSTCARDS AND A PHOTOGRAPH OF DOUGLAS

Materials for a Description of the Island.

Photographic frontispiece and 22 plates.

First Edition. Large 8vo. [263 x 183 x 48 mm]. xvi, 365, [1] pp. Bound in the original sky-blue manilla paper boards, sky-blue cloth spine, lettered in gilt on a blue leather label, uncut and unopened edges, in original glassine paper wrappers (torn with loss).
Florence: G. Orioli, 1930.

Woolf A 33.

No.6 of 525 copies signed by the author. 500 were for sale priced at 30s. A very good copy, with just a little light spotting on the edges. It is inscribed in green ink on the front endleaf: "For Stephen Clark hoping that these pages - if he succeeds in reading them - may soon persuade him to return to Capri from Norman Douglas. Capri. Nov. 1950". There are also three letters from Douglas to Clark, two inscribed postcards (of Capri and Douglas with Carmelina, the once famous tarantella dancer) and an inscribed photograph of Douglas at the age of 82 with his bust at the age of 10.

Stephen Clark (1913-2011) was the great-grandson of James Clark who in 1833 went into partnership with his brother Cyrus to create the world-famous shoe manufacturing firm of C. & J. Clark of Street in Somerset. Clark was a great admirer and collector of Norman Douglas, and the author was keen to encourage his enthusiasm.

Stock no. 7975