South Wind.
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. Number 28 in Cyril Connolly's "The Modern Movement: 100 Key Books From England, France and America: 1880-1950 (1966). Item #127000
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