South Wind

by Norman Douglas

$250 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

London: Martin Secker, 1917. 8vo, 464 pp. Publisher's brown cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt. Cloth lightly rubbed, hinges weak, contents clean; very good. § First edition of Douglas's best-known novel. The story of a priest's short vacation from moral rectitude on the fictional Mediterranean island of Nepenthe, a thinly disguised Capri, where Douglas spent many years. A touchstone to a generation entranced by the author's depiction of philosophical hedonism.

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