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George Norman Douglas

Male : Novelist & Travel writer. Made his home on the isle of Capri in the Mediterranean. Committed suicide.
Nationality : Scottish Place of Birth : Tilquillie Castle, Kincardine

Date of Birth : 1868 Date of Death : 1952 Age : 84

Pseudonyms : Normyx

Other Work : Worked in the Foreign Office 1893-1901

Education : Uppingham School & Karlsrue
1892-1900
Zur Fauna Santorins
(1892 Leipzig) - Ltd 50 copies
Contributions to an Avifauna of Baden
(1894)
On the Herpetology of the Grand Duchy of Baden
(1894) - Ltd 50 copies
Report on the Pumic Stone Industry of the Lipari Islands
(1895 Hours Press) - Ltd 80 copies
On the Darwinian Hypothesis of Sexual Selection
(1895) - Ltd 25 copies

1901-1910
Unprofessional Tales
(1901 T Fisher Unwin) - ss by 'Normyx'
The Blue Grotto and Its Literature
(1904 Capri Monograph PP) - 100 copies
The Forestal Conditions of Capri
(1904 Capri Monograph PP) - 100
Fabio Giordano's Relation of Capri
(1906 Capri Monograph PP) - 250
Offered in 1999 for £350
Three Monographs
(1906 Capri Monograph PP) - 250
The Life of the Venerable Suor Serafina Di Dio
(1907 Capri Monograph PP) - 100
Some Antiquarian Notes
(1907 Capri Monograph PP) - 250

1911-1920
Siren Land
(1911 J Dent)
Offered in 1999 for £250
Fountains in the Sand
(1912 Martin Secker)
Dislecta Membra
(1915 Capri Monograph PP) - 100
Index
(1915 Capri Monograph PP) - 100
Old Calabria
(1915 Martin Secker)
London Street Games
(1916 St Catherine's Press - 500) (1931 Chatto & Windus. Revised Ed)
South Wind
(1917 Martin Secker)
They Went
(1920 Chapman & Hall)

1921-1930
Alone
(1921 Chapman & Hall)
Together
(1923 C & H) - 275 signed
D H Lawrence and Maurice Magnus : A Plea for Better Manners
(1924 PP Florence)
Experiments
(1925 Privately printed)
In the Beginning
(1927 privately printed, Florence) - 700 signed
(1928 C & W trade ed) (1928 John Day, NY)
(1928 NY) - Valenti Angelo
Birds and Beasts of the Greek Anthology
(1927 Privately printed) - 500 signed
Some Limericks
(1928 PP Florence)
Nerinda
(1929 G Orioli, Florence) - novella. Ltd Ed 475 copies (1929 NY)
One Day
(1929 Hours Press, Paris)
South Wind
(1929 Argus Books, Chicago) - John Austen 2000 - 2 vols
How About Europe ? : Footnotes on East and West
(1929 PP Florence) - 550 numbered & signed
The Angel of Manfredonia
(1929 Windsor Press, SF)
Three of Them
(1930 C & W) - anthology
Capri : Materials for a description of the Island
(1930 G Orioli, Florence)
Paneros
(1930 - G Orioli, Florence)

After 1931
Summer Islands : Ischia and Ponza
(1931 Desmond Harmsworth) - 500 numbered
(1931 The Colophon, NY)
South Wind
(1932 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Carlotta Petrina
Looking Back
(1933 C & W) - 2 vols of autobiography. 535 numbered sets
An Almanac
(1941 Privately printed, Lisbon) (1945 Chatto, Secker) - Enid Marx
Late Harvest
(1946 Lindsay Drummond) - autobiography
(Ed) Venus in the Kitchen, or Love's Cookery Book (1952 Heinemann)
- recipes. Intro Graham Greene. Bruce Roberts
Footnote on Capri
(1952 Sidgwick & Jackson)
In the Beginning
(1953 Folio Society) - Richard Sharp

READING
Edward D McDonald : A Bibliography of Douglas
(1927)
Henry Major Tomlinson : Norman Douglas
(1931, 1952)
Richard MacGillivray
(R M Dawkins) : Norman Douglas (1933 Florence) - 450 numbered
(1952 London)
Cecil Woolf : A Bibliography of Norman Douglas
(1954 Soho Bibliographies, London)
Richard Aldington : Pinorman - personal recollections of Douglas, Pino Orioli
& Charles Prentice
(1954)
Nancy Cunard : Grand Man - Memories of Norman Douglas
(1955 Secker & Warburg 25/-)
Mark Holloway : Norman Douglas - A Biography
(1976 London)

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