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DOUGLAS, NORMAN. Unprofessional Tales. By Normyx. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1901. Pictorial cloth, covers a little soiled. Author's first regularly published and hardcover book, one of 750 copies. INSCRIBED on title-page: "Touched up by myself Norman Douglas" (referring to his ink drawing at center of title-page of a coat-of-arms for the publisher) -- Together. New York, 1931. Cloth; dust jacket. Later American edition -- Experiments. [Florence]: Privately Printed, 1925. 4to, boards, paper label; dust jacket. One of 300 copies numbered and signed by Douglas -- Birds and Beasts of the Greek Anthology. [Florence]: Privately Printed, 1927. Boards, paper label, tiny crack in front outer joint; dust jacket. One of 500 copies numbered and signed by Douglas. Paul Lemperly bookplate -- In the Beginning. [Florence]: Privately Printed, 1927. Boards, leather label, two corners a bit bumped. One of 700 copies numbered and signed by Douglas. Laid in original envelope pasted to front free endpaper: ALS from Douglas to Lemperly, Syria, 27 April 1928, 1 p., 4to, regarding the prospectus for this book. Hetty and Munson Havens bookplate inscribed by Lemperly -- Nerinda. Florence: Orioli, 1929. Boards, a fore-corner a trifle worn. One of 475 copies numbered and signed by Douglas -- Paneros. London, 1931. Cloth-backed boards, t.e.g.; dust jacket (a bit dust-soiled). First English Edition, limited to 650 numbered copies -- Looking Back. London, 1933. 2 vols., cloth-backed boards, t.e.g.; dust jackets. One of 535 copies numbered and signed by Douglas. Laid in envelope pasted to front endpapers: 2 ALS from Douglas to Lemperly, Florence, 3 April and 5 June 1933, 2 pp., 4to, mainly relating to this book. Paul Lemperly bookplate. Together 10 vols. and 3 letters, the books 8vo, except as noted, original bindings. FIRST EDITIONS, except as indicated. Mostly in very good to fine condition. (13)