SOUTH WIND
London: Martin Secker, 1917. First Edition, First Issue. Octavo, 464 pages; VG; in publisher's brown cloth, housed inside a custom brown slipcase with matching chemise, slipcase with ox-blood label and gilt lettering; binding threatening to crack at title page; mild rubbing to boards; First issue, with lines 1 and 2 on page 335 in the proper order; WD consignment; shelved case 6.
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Shelved Dupont Bookstore
Price: $200
NOTES
South Wind is Douglas' most famous book and his only success as a novelist. It is set on an imaginary island called Nepenthe, located off the coast of Italy in the Tyrrhenian Sea, a thinly fictionalized description of Capri's residents and visitors. The narrative concerns twelve days during which Thomas Heard, a bishop returning to England from his diocese in Africa, yields his moral vigor to various influences. Philosophical hedonism pervades much of Douglas' writing, and the novel's discussion of moral and sexual issues caused considerable debate. [wikipedia]