Some Limericks: Collected for the use of Students, & ensplendour'd with Introduction, Geographical Index, and with Notes Explanatory and Critical
[No place]: Privately Printed, 1928.
Price: $1,500.00
Hardcover. First edition thus. Orange cloth gilt. Very slight soiling, and barely noticeable fading to the spine, about fine. One of 750 numbered copies for subscribers, none of which were for sale. This particular copy has been designated by Douglas as copy number (Roman Numeral) I and Inscribed: "For S.A. / N.D. 4-1928."
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Norman Douglas
birth name: George Norman Douglass
born: 12/8/1868
died: 2/7/1952
Biography
Essayist and novelist who wrote of southern Italy, where he lived for many years. In his later years he lived on the island of Capri, which is the setting of his most famous book, South Wind (1917). All his books, whether fiction, topography, essays, or autobiography, have a charm arising from Douglas' unhibited expression of a bohemian, aristocratic personality. His prose is considered an excellent example of the conversational style. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore