I’ve actually bought six books so far this year – making me precisely on track for the end of March – but only four of them have arrived as of yet. To keep track, books 3 and 4 are… A Winter Away by Elizabeth Fair – which I bought for the latest episode of Tea or Books?, and which I really liked – and Norman Douglas by H.M. Tomlinson.
I bought this while in London, on Charing Cross Road, and it led to a little conversation with the bookseller about Norman Douglas. He, in fact, was reading a book by Norman Douglas right then. But I… well, I’ve never read a book by Norman Douglas. Or H.M. Tomlinson, come to that. And I always seem to get Norman Douglas mixed up with Norman Collins.
BUT I love the Dolphin Books series. There such lovely objects, and a really interesting range of non-fiction titles. They’re also pretty hard to stumble across, for the most part, so I couldn’t resist it when I found it. And that’s reason enough to add it to my Project 24 list, isn’t it?
I spent a good amount of time a few years ago reading all the H.M.Tomlinson books I could find. He’s a wonderfully quirky author. I highly recommend The Sea and The Jungle, if you ever come across it. I also purchased All Our Yesterdays, an autobiography of sorts, published in an edition of 500 in 1930 by William Heinemann, London, signed and numbered…one of my treasures.
Oh, thank you for the recommendation – and what a wonderful treasure to have!
What a lovely looking book! I’ve often meant to pick up Douglas’s South Wind but just never got round to it.
So many books in that category, aren’t there?!