Experiments by Douglas Norman (51 results)

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Dark blue 1/4 cloth, blue paper covered boards, front cover lettered in dark blue, spine panel lettered in gilt. Mild rubbing to spine extremities, text block edges somewhat dulled by age, minor surface rubbing to back cover. Firm binding, clean and unmarked interior beyond former owner's signature on front fixed endpaper. 264 pp. First edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. No Jacket. First Edition. The first U.S. edition. Shows light foxing throughout; with light wear to extemes. Overall, tight and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo. Hardcover and dust jacket. In mylar. Tight binding and solid boards. Minor shelf wear. Owners stamp on endpaper. Otherwise, clean, unmarked pages. A well-preserved volume in very good condition. Ships daily.

264pp. 8vo Blue boards and blue cloth back VG+/no dj.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition Thus. 1. VERY GOOD. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (vii), 264 pp.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. This book is hard-bound in red cloth with gilt stamping on the spine. The covers show sunning to the edges and spine, and light rubbing to the corners and spine-ends. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean. There is a previous owner bookplate on the front paste-down.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. the book is edge worn and a bit marked. foxing. pages are clear and legible. fairly good copy. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 8vo, green cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. Binding cracked at pastedowns, corner of front endpaper absent. Very old library plate on rear pastedown. Inner book generally very nice and clean, with occasional marks. Essays from Douglas, a well known travel writer, on a variety of subjects.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First US Edition. No dj 1st U.S. Edition; 8 vo; 264 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. First Edition. #264/300 printed, signed by the author on the limitation page and inscribed warmly on the title page to Hugh Richards. The dust jacket is very tanned, torn, delicate and chipped- Poor+. The cream boards are worn at the edges and corners, spine has split on front edge, some darkening. Uncut, endpapers are tanned. All orders packed with care, most dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011. Signed by Author.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Essays, short stories, reviews, poem; Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Doughty, and D. H. Lawrence are discussed. First American edition. Hardcover, full pinkish cloth, black titling. Light wear, head of spine bumped; jacket lightly rubbed with small scuff to spine, minor chipping at the ends. Text clean; [8], 264 pages. Size: Octavo.

Second impression. 8vo. 267 pp. Cloth binding in clipped dustwrapper, overall very good condition. (52566).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second impression of English edition (published seven months after the first impression-- see Woolf A24c). Red cloth. Owner's bold ink name on front flyleaf, dampstains on boards, very good in a very good dust jacket with small chips and tears, and a toned spine. The text differs substantially from that of the preceding privately printed and American editions.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good +. Second printing. Greyish paper DJ with small ( all less than 1.5cm) tears on spine and top edge, two very small pieces missing. Now in removable protective jacket. FEP has name of previous owner and dated 1976. 267pp. This book is scarce as it still has it's paper DJ. It is described as 'a miscellany containing the famous Defence of Maurice Magnus, in reply to D.H. Lawrence'. But it also includes discourses on Edward Allan Poe, Maupassant, Alberique and others.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo, second impression, pp,267, gilt titled red cloth, spine slightly faded, with the "tipped in" new publisher's slip prior to the title-page [Chatto & Windus].

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. No DJ. SIGNED BY AUTHOR (name only.no inscription). 2nd impression, 1926. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light soiling. Spine slightly faded. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day! Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First trade edition. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth, device in blind to front panel, gilt lettered to spine, this a little sunned with light wear to head & tail, aside from this a pleasing copy, with ex libris bookplate of the publisher Martin Secker to front paste-down; essays by ND - 'Arabia Deserta', 'Edgar Allan Poe' and 'Nocturne' amongst them - a nice association as Secker was responsible for publishing some of his output during WW1, including his notorious novel 'South Wind' .

Fine. Hard cover, second impression , dw, 267pp. Red boards clean and bright, no inscriptions. Dustjacket very nice clean , bright and without any wear , perhaps a very slight hint of sunning to spine. A near Fine book in a Fine dustjacket. Pictures available.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition; First Printing. First Edition (1925). Very Good+ in Good+ DJ: The Book shows light wear to the corner tips; just a touch of shelving wear to the lower extremities; the expected light tanning to the text pages; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A lightly-used copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing mild wear and some minor cosmetic flaws. The DJ shows small loss to chipping at the extremities; mild rubbing and faint consequent soiling to the panels; the price has been clipped; mylar-protected. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8.25 x 5.8 x 1.35 inches). Language: English. Weight: 19.2 ounces. Light blue cloth over boards with black titles at the front panel and backstrip. Hardback with DJ. Norman Douglas (1868 1952) was a British writer, now best known for his 1917 novel South Wind. H. M. Tomlinson, a contemporary of Douglas's, compared his writing to that of great English essayists and novelists: to Jonathan Swift's irony and Laurence Sterne's warmth. In 'Experiments' Douglas offers essays, short stories, reviews, poetry, theology, fiction; Arabia Deserta, intellectural nomadism, and Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Doughty, and D. H. Lawrence are appreciated, analysed and discussed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 264 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second impression (UK) Chatto and Windus 1926. Jacket is Good, missing top inch of spine otherwise moderate wear, tear and fading. Book is VG with moderate external wear, pages yellowed with an occasional minor blemish.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Faded maroon boards and spine, the latter, lettered in gilt has a 2 mm white spot. Internally two names written on foxed free end paper, one in pencil and one in ink; also circular embossed stamp; foxing continues as far as title page. Clean contents.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American edition. Rust colored cloth stamped in black lettering. Spine a bit cocked, owner's decorative bookplate and name penned on front pastedown, near fine in a good only price-clipped dustwrapper with edges chipped, lightly stained. Douglas' views on the character assault on Maurice Magnus by D.H. Lawrence.

hardcover. Condition: very good/very good. Limited edition. Quarto. (11" x 7 1;2") 229pp. This edition is limited to 300 numbered and signed copies of which this is #266 signed by Norman Douglas. Cream boards in tan dust jacket. Bottom of spine severely bumped with a one inch dark mark along edges. Top of spine also bumped. Jacket has some chipping with a one inch piece missing at top. In a protective wrapper/.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. red cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 267 pp, foxing to edges, dj with chips on edges Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo.

230 pp. 1 vols. 4to. First Trade Edition. First Trade Edition. 230 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Woolf A24b Red cloth cloth. Fine in fine dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American edition, and first expanded edition (with material not included in the privately printed edition or the subsequent English edition), second issue binding of medium blue cloth. *Woolf* A24b: "most complete edition," 2175 copies printed (765 of which were remaindered). Octavo. 264pp. Medium blue cloth lettered in dark blue, conforming to Woolf's later issue binding. Lower front hinge started with early neat clear tape mend on lower third of hinge, else a very good, bright copy in very good dust jacket with shallow chipping and a deep price-clip on the front flap. The text here differs from that of the preceding 1925 privately printed edition, and the subsequent English edition, in that all the book reviews present in the original have been preserved, but the concluding essay "D.H. Lawrence and Maurice Magnus / (A Plea for Better Manners)," has been added, printed here for the first time in book form, supplying a wealth of details concerning Maurice Magnus and D.H. Lawrence.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. Large 8vo. pp 230.Oyster-white paper-covered boards with publisher's printed paper spine label.Covers slightly toned, some marks on rear board, spine ends sl chipped else sound used good copy with clean text and no inscriptions. Copy number 214 of 300 numbered copies Signed by Douglas. A miscellany of stories, essays and book reviews on various subjects, including Arabia Deserta, Edgar Allen Poe and Charles Waterton. Badly printed on an indifferent laid paper, this was Douglas's 'first serious attempt at publishing his own work. Douglas noted: 'The printers let me down dreadfully over that book; so that over 60 copies were not fit to send away'.'. Signedes.

Douglas, Norman. Experiments. Gran Bretaña, Champman and Hall, 1926. Características: Buen estado general. Pasta dura en tela editorial. Letras estampadas en dorado sobre la pasta. Ligera decoloración en la parte superior e inferior de las tapas. Cantos con leves manchas causadas debido a la humedad. 267 p. (22 x 14.5 cm) Peso: 550 g. Libro.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First British Edition. Spine titles gilt, original red cloth, publisher's device to front board in blindstamp. Very Good, endpages toned, top edge of page block a bit dusty, in the SCARCE dustjacket, also Very Good, complete separation along front spine fold showing evidence of old tape repair, spine darkened, chips at spine tips and flap fold tips. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.