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A Concise Bibliography of the Works of Norman Douglas

(Mainly the First Edition Books) – still to be checked (3.2.2007)

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Norman Douglas’s monogram mark applied to books in his possession.

Unprofessional Tales: 1901 writing as 'Normyx', T. Fisher Unwin 750 copies, statement of sales in 1903 indicates that 594 copies remained unsold – it has been suggested that most were pulped.  Most stories written by his wife Eliza FitzGibbon.  Woolf A6

Siren Land: 1911 J.M. Dent March 1911.  1500 copies, 890 copies were pulped in 1919, Woolf A13a.  200 copies published in New York by E.P Dutton May 1911.

Fountains In The Sand: [1912] Martin Secker.  1000 copies, 260 bound copies sent to USA, 408 copies remaindered in May 1915, 3 variant bindings, Woolf A14a. 

Old Calabria: 1915 Martin Secker.  1000 copies, February 1915 (of which 500 unbound copies sent to USA for the Houghton Mifflin Edition September 1915 Woolf A16d), 408 copies remaindered in May 1915, 3 variant bindings, Woolf A16a. 

To be continued.

Left – part of page 32 of Douglas’s own copy of the first English edition (1945) of ‘An Almanac’ with his own mark-ups for the second impression of 1946 (shown right).

Inscription by Compton Mackenzie to the end--paper of Douglas’s own copy of ‘Extraordinary Women’ (left) and the first edition of ‘Old Calabria’ right.

© 2007 Peter Shouler.

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