SUMMER ISLANDS: Ischia and Ponza.
London. Published by Desmond Harmsworth, 1931. 8vo pp.80.frontispiece. a little pale foxing to the early pages. booksellers ticket to foot of endpaper. The First Trade edition in dark blue cloth in edge nicked price clipped. dust wrapper. else a clean bright copy with the spare label tipped in at the rear. Item #195742
'Here are two characteristic essays on the islands of Ischia and Ponza both in Mr. Douglas's Mediterranean, with a range in time from the age of the giant Typhoeus to our own; The book is perfect exhibition of what Mr. H.M.Tomlinson has recently defined as the authors inverted' casual and unbuttoned scholarship his elusiveness that marks the proprieties and the altars of the light and the glinting nature of his style.'.
Price: $50.00