Product Type
Condition
Binding
Collectible Attributes
Free Shipping
Seller Location
Seller Rating
Published by Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 1986
ISBN 10: 0241118972ISBN 13: 9780241118979
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks
Used offers from US$ 4.33
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1984
ISBN 10: 0241113733ISBN 13: 9780241113738
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks
New offers from US$ 65.74
Used offers from US$ 4.33
Also find Softcover First Edition
Published by Faber and Faber, 2009
ISBN 10: 0571247679ISBN 13: 9780571247677
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks
New offers from US$ 37.42
Used offers from US$ 15.56
Also find Softcover
Published by Faber & Faber 2008-12-11, London, 2008
ISBN 10: 0571247660ISBN 13: 9780571247660
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
Book
paperback. Condition: New. Language: ENG.
More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks
New offers from US$ 21.90
Published by Methuen and Co, London, 1970
ISBN 10: 0416074901ISBN 13: 9780416074901
Seller: BOOK2BUY, Lynbrook, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hardcover - clean, no marks, clean inside, no dj - from a private collection.
Published by Methuen & Co Ltd, 1970
ISBN 10: 0416129005ISBN 13: 9780416129007
Seller: leonardo giulioni, ROMA, RM, Italy
Book
Condition: Used: Good. DD10 Editore Methuen & CO Ltd , volume di 388 pp. con alcune illustrazioni in b/n, pagine lievemente brunite ai bordi con sporadiche fioriture, presenza di ex libris, legatura in tutta tela con titoli al dorso, usura della copertina per bruniture ai bordi, schiacciamento degli angoli, perdita di colore e brunitura del dorso.
More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks
Used offers from US$ 24.26
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd, London, 1970
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. blue cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 388 pp dj worn on the edges underlining in blue ink throughout the book copyright slip taped to the front endpaper Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Published by New Fetter lane., London., 1970
Seller: DARIS SAS, Lucca, LU, Italy
In-8°, legatura in tutta tela e sovracoperta editoriale, pp. XV-388. Piccolo strappetto alla sovracoperta senza perdite. -(Harold Mario Acton (Firenze, 5 luglio 1904 Firenze, 27 febbraio 1994) è stato uno scrittore, storico e collezionista d'arte britannico. Dopo la guerra si stabilì in Toscana, dove visse gran parte della sua vita. Ebbe come base villa La Pietra Firenze).
Published by Methuen & Co Ltd, 1970, 1970
Seller: Holybourne Rare Books ABA ILAB, Alton, United Kingdom
First Edition
ISBN10: 0416129005 ISBN13: 9780416129007 First edition Hardback. Near Fine, edges dusty slight bumping, in clean and bright unclipped dustwrapper. Showing very minor wear, slightest discolouration, some bumping, and rubbing which is housed in a protective removable sleeve. There are no ink marks or writing. Excellent clean example. 15107.
Published by Faber & Faber London 2008, 2008
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
1st ed. thus softback with stiff wrappers As New octavo 416pp., b/w plates, index, Faber finds. Originally published in 1948.
Published by Hamish Hamilton, London, 1984
Seller: B. B. Scott, Fine Books (PBFA), London, UK, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book Print on Demand
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First paperback edition. Photographic illustrations. 8vo. Publisher's grey pictorial wrappers, gentle toning to page margins with a slight buckle to the text block but still a very serviceable copy of this classic memoir; an original edition rather than print-on-demand.
Published by methuen & co. (o.j.)
Seller: Antiquariat Walter Nowak, Göttingen, Germany
Gewicht in Gramm: 550 schnitt fleckig,leichte gebrauchsspuren,innen sauber.
Published by Viking Books, 1971
ISBN 10: 0670468169ISBN 13: 9780670468164
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.4.
More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks
New offers from US$ 329.78
Used offers from US$ 64.77
Also find Hardcover
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 388. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. ISBN: 0416129009 Very good indeed in slightly used, minus very good dust jacket, with some edgewear.
Published by The Viking Press, New York, 1971
Seller: Counterpoint Records & Books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
1/4 Cloth. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. First Thus. Purple paper covered boards, corners straight. Purple and gold titles on black cloth covered spine. Book body clean, b/w illustrations, pages #193-208 have been bound-in upside down. Black illustrated dust jacket shows light wear to edges, price intact, brodart protected.
Published by Methuen, 1948
Seller: The Plantagenet King ABA / ILAB, Birchington, KENT, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition published by Methuen in 1948. This is a very good copy. The jacket has several tape repairs to the reverse of the jacket mainly to the spine and corners. There is a closed and repaired tear across the front panel of the wrapper. There are also several marks to the front and back panel. The fragile jacket is fairly complete and hasn't been price clipped. The book has a mark to the bottom of the front board. It has mild and sporadic foxing to the side text block and to the first couple of pages. Overall in reasonable shape. A very good copy. Harold Acton's classic autobiography that has now become very rare to find with the dust wrapper and in any condition. .
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1948
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. ACTON, Harold [416] pp. Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1948 8 3/4" x 6" w/ marbled endpapers 'In this remarkable book, Harold Acton writes a witty and vivid account of his first thirty-five years of his life from his boyhood among the international colony of dilettanti in Florence before the First World War, to his maturity when he discovered his spiritual home in Peking before the old Chinese culture was destroyed. Between the two, he was one of the brilliant generation up at Oxford just after the war and afterwards moved to Paris where he knew many of the literary and artistic figures of the time. It is an outstanding memoir, rightly regarded as a classic (Faber).
Published by The Viking Press, New York, 1970
Seller: Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
First American edition. 318pp. Original publisher's black cloth-backed purple paper boards, dustwrapper. A very good copy with only slightest of chipping to unclipped dustwrapper. Presentation copy, inscribed to recto of FFEP; 'For Mason and Florence / with all best wishes for / Christmas and the New Year / ever affectionately / Harold / 19 December 1973.' The second volume of autobiography from novelist Harold Acton (1904-1994), titled More Memoirs of an Aesthete when released in Britain. Mason Hammond (1903-2002), classical scholar at Harvard University, spouse of Florence Pierson (1909-1999). Hammond, a dedicated antiquary and authority on Latin and the Roman Empire, published numerous historical monographs and served with the MFAA or 'Monuments Men' during The Second World War. Size: 8vo.
Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [8], 416 pp. Blue-tint monochrome plates and frontispiece. 12mo, blue cloth, gilt spine lettering. Owner's name to FFEP, very minor bump to fore tail corner, entirely and uncommonly clean and sharp otherwise; DJ price clipped, tips worn with a bit of loss, now wrapped in mylar. Scarce in jacket.
Published by Viking Press, New York, 1971
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. 388pp. Purple cloth, black boards. 12 black and white photographs. Author signature and inscription on the front free endpaper. Toning to the extremities of the endpapers, light handling to the spine edges, light creasing to the flaps. otherwise in excellent condition. Laid in are three typewritten pages of Genealogical Notes on the Actons by Peter Gunn, biographer of the Acton family. Unclipped pictorial jacket has a closed tear on the upper left corner of the front panel, otherwise near fine, free of chips. in mylar sleeve. "In this remarkable book, Harold Acton writes a witty and vivid account of his first thirty-five years of his life from his boyhood among the international colony of dilettanti in Florence before the First World War, to his maturity when he discovered his spiritual home in Peking before the old Chinese culture was destroyed. Between the two, he was one of the brilliant generation up at Oxford just after the war and afterwards moved to Paris where he knew many of the literary and artistic figures of the time. It is an outstanding memoir, rightly regarded as a classic." Scarce title. Size: Octavo. Signed and Inscribed By the Author.
Published by Methuen, London, 1948
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The First UK printing published by Methuen, London in 1948. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. Light pushing with a little fading at the spine tips. Gilt titling to the spine remains bright. A hint of rubbing to the corners. Mild offsetting to the blank end-papers. The scarce fragile WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good+ condition. Some edge-wear with small areas of loss to the spine ends and rear upper edge areas. Some brown tape reinforcement to the edges to the verso with some small areas of this visible to the front. Some age related markings, few nicks and short closed tears with some light toning to the edges. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. The book has been inscribed by the author to the front blank end-paper : 'To Anthony Hobson, with happy memories of amazing occasions, with all best wishes, from Harold Acton'. The recipient Anthony Hobson was a noted historian, auctioneer and scholar. Hobson's personal bookplate is present on the front pastedown. 'In this remarkable book, Harold Acton writes a witty and vivid account of his first thirty-five years of his life from his boyhood among the international colony of dilettanti in Florence before the First World War, to his maturity when he discovered his spiritual home in Peking before the old Chinese culture was destroyed. Between the two, he was one of the brilliant generation up at Oxford just after the war and afterwards moved to Paris where he knew many of the literary and artistic figures of the time. It is an outstanding memoir, rightly regarded as a classic' (Faber). A very scarce title with such attributes. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.