Acton Sir Harold (19 results)

Condition: good. The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. Catalogue for an exhibition held at the Royal Academy, London and then the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge in 1979. 124pp, with numerous full page illustrations. In laminated card covers. Small 4to. Gentle edge wear to card covers, with small flat crease near base on front and a few scuff marks on verso. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.…

Original publisher's gray paper-covered boards, silver title spine, pictorial dustjacket, large 4to: 200pp., very richly illustrated, introductory essay with illustrations, 30 villas [outside & inside] depicted with large page-large plates, small pictorial list villas - with descriptions & references, general bibliography. Very fine copy. Veneto = erea surrounding Venice - Padua - Treviso - Vicenza. …

hardcover. Condition: very good(+). very good(+). 188 illustrations, including 150 color photographs by Reinhart Wolf. 199 pages. Folio, grey cloth, d.w. (sunned spine). New York: Abrams, (1988). Edges of boards a touch sunned, otherwise fine in a very good(+) dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Boards rubbed and lightly marked, spine sunned, front free endpaper attached to front pastedown. Clean throughout. Good. Book.

unknown_binding. Condition: Good. 1965 methuen edition on brown cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Three Extraordinary AmbassadorsSir Harold ActonThames and Hudson, 1983 : 64pp : b/w platesNear very good in publisher's silver-grey cloth with titles in gilt to front board and spine.All corners sharp with clean and fresh leaves.Spine cloth slightly sun-fadedProfusely illustrated throughout with b&w plates. Silver grey cloth slip case with gilt dolphin motif : slightly dust-tanned The text of the 15th Walter Neurath Memorial Lectures given by Sir Harold Acton in 1983. Presentation copy bookplate on front board inner face The lectures, respectively, are on Sir Henry Wotton, who spent 2 years as King James I and VI 's ambassador to Venice, and is famous for the dictum "A diplomat is an honest.…

Sep 10, 2002. Condition: D'occasion - Bon état. Edition Arthaud. Dos de la jaquette un peu jaunie, livre en excellent état par ailleurs, dans emboîtage cartonné un peu jauni en bordure, en bon état sinon. Envoi rapide et soigné dans enveloppe à bulles.

Condition: Very Good. Très bon état. 27x34x2cm. 2002. reliure d'éditeur avec jaquette. 199 pages. Very Good.

Paper. Condition: Good. First Edition. An Original Handwritten and Signed Letter from Writer Sir Harold Acton to the daughter of Ottoline Morrell Julian Morrell. Dated 1969. A long, interesting letter discussing the health, decline and obituary of 'Reggie Colby' a joint fiend. Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell) (1906-1989), Former wife of Sir Victor Goodman, and later wife of Igor Vinogradoff. English aristocrat, the daughter of Lady Ottoline Morrell. Her twin brother Hugh died of a brain haemorrhage three days after their birth. Julian Morrell first married Sir Victor Goodman, and later married Igor Vinogradoff. She died on 6 December 1989. Sir Harold Acton 1904 - 1994 was a British writer, scholar, and aesthete who was a prominent member of the Bright Young Things. He wrote fiction, biography, history and autobiography. Size is 295mm x 207mm. Condition is good. Light folding creases. Ref 19237. Signed by Author(s).…

hardcover. Condition: Good. With dust jacket.

Rilegato. Condition: nuovo. sovraccoperta. Traduttore: Silvia De Michele. Fotografie di Reinhart Wolf. Testi di Peter Lauritzen. Presentazione di Harold Acton. Volume quasi interamente illustrato, con fotografie a colori a piena e doppia pagina, legatura in tela con sovraccoperta figurata con lievi segni di uso Numero Pagine 202 nuovo con leggere fioriture alle pagine di risguardo.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. A beautiful journey through Florence; it's people, culture, and history as portrayed through a series of wonderful engravings. Sir Harold Acton CBE (1904-1994) was, across a long and distinguished literary career, one of the twentieth century's foremost English interpreters of Italian, and particularly Florentine, culture and history. A British writer and aesthete born and raised at Villa La Pietra outside Florence, Acton returned after wartime service to restore his childhood home and remained there, at the centre of the city's cultural life, for the remainder of his days. Acton's literary engagement with Florence spanned decades, encompassing works including The Last of the Medici (1930) and The Bourbons of Naples (1956), and he was knighted in 1974 for his services to literature and to Anglo-Italian cultural relations. On his death in 1994, he left Villa La Pietra to New York University, where it remains today as the university's Florence campus. The Book of Florence, produced by the Rome-based publisher Editalia as part of its "Le Città d'Oro" series celebrating the great historic cities of Italy, brings together Acton's authoritative text with an extensive programme of reproduced historical engravings documenting Florence's architecture, art, and civic life across the centuries. The production of the book itself is wondrous: luxurious, heavy handmade paper, a full leather binding and, strikingly, a cover made from hammered bronze bearing the heraldic lily of Florence. The volume is housed in a richly illustrated slipcase. Limited edition. Limited to 1,949 numbered copies, this being number 492. Large folio (40.5 x 33.5cm). 242, [i: colophon] pp. Full leather binding with raised bands, spine richly gilt. Front cover with hammered bronze plate bearing the Florence coat of arms (the Florentine lily) in relief. Rear cover with five bronze knobs. Printed on heavy, handmade paper stock. Housed in cloth and illustrated paper slipcase. Numerous reproduced engravings throughout, including three folding illustrations to the rear. Some shelf wear to slipcase outer surfaces. Volume in excellent order, some markings left my leather page marker to single pages. Otherwise, pristine throughout. Part of Editalia's "Le Città d'Oro" (The Golden Cities) series of bibliophile city monographs; issued alongside a companion volume, Le Livre de Rome, presented by Gaston Palewski. Please note: This is a large and heavy volume. Additional postage costs may apply. If so, we will contact you after purchase.…

Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. RO30378011: 1987. In-4. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 160 pages. Jaquette et sous emboîtage corrects. Nombreuses photos en couleurs, dont frontispice. Avec Jaquette. Sous Emboitage. . Classification Dewey : 945-Italie.

Folio. pp. 199, [1]. Profusely illus. in colour & b/w. biblio. boards (top edge sunned). dw.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Description: 4° - 301pp - Color Plates and B/w reproductions. Exhibition Catalogue: PAINTING IN NAPLES 1606-1705 From Caravaggio to Giordano from 2 October to 12 December 1982. First edition, text in English language. Original pictorial boards (Caravaggio). In Fine condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed and dedicated Asssociation Copy. First Edition, first impression 1983. Fine in publisher's silver-grey cloth with titles in gilt. Profusely illustrated throughout with b&w plates. Fine shiny d.j. is complete and unclipped. Some very faint impressed marks on the front are the only flaws. All corners sharp. Pages clean and fresh. The text of the 15th Walter Neurath Memorial Lectures given by Sir Harold Acton in 1983. Dedicated and signed on the F.f.e.p by the author in December 1982 to his friends "Jamie and Yvonne" (James Hamish Hamilton, the publisher and his second wife Countess Yvonne Pallavicino) as a pre-publication Christmas gift. The lectures, respectively, are on Sir Henry Wotton, who spent 2 years as King James I and VI 's ambassador to Venice, and is famous for the dictum "A diplomat is an honest gentleman sent abroad to lie for the good of his country", Sir Horace Mann ambassador to Florence from 1740 to 1786, and Sir William Hamilton, ambassador to the Court of Naples from 1764-1798. A lovely signed copy. Inscribed by Author(s). …

One page, 8vo, fold marks, good condition. "Herewith I enclose the proofs you kindly sent with many thanks. All is at a standstill here for Ferragosto [underlined] but I hope this will reach you safely by express post.".

Condition: Very Good. Autograph Letter signed to Ifan Kyrle Fletcher, 3pp. & envelope, 8vo, from Via Posillipo Naples, 13th March 1959, on refusing to write a review for a book on the Chinese Theatre, ". I left Peking in 1939 and have entirely lost touch with the Chinese theatre, of which I was a devotee for seven happy years - so happy that the subject has become painful, my best friends murdered or in exile and all my property there stolen or confiscated", referring to an ealier article from a 'Miss Hartnoll he writes ''When I wrote.I still hoped to return to China but the Communist regime has made that quite impossible.' Folds , original blue airmail envelope addressed to Fletcher in Buckingham Gate London SW1. Very good. Signedes.…