Five Saints Appendix by Harold Acton (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression. Warmly INSCRIBED by Acton to ffep with Paris 1928 date. Good overall with attractive patterned boards having wear at corners. No jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hard cover with original blue cloth spine and blue and orange batik-patterned paper boards, black titles within cream paper frame on spine, and no cover wear. Inscription: "Lord Wimborne with the author's compliments and regrets that he had no poem on Saint Leger to offer. However, may that concerning S. Catherine of Alexandria supply this lamentable deficiency!" (February 1930). Clean interior with viii, 146 untrimmed pages. Published in 1927 this inscribed book, the author's third, is in near fine to fine condition. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. Very good copy in the original paper-labeled, quarter cloth-backed batik-patterned boards. Edges very slightly dust-dulled as with age. Remains particularly and uncommonly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 146 pages; Description: viii, 146 p. ; 20 cm. Genre: Poetry. Signed, dated and with a lengthy inscription by the author to [Mark? ]. 3 Kg.

First edition. Octavo. pp viii, 146. Cloth-backed batik boards, printed title-label on spine. Pages unopened.Fine in very good, chipped, torn and slightly dusty dustwrapper defective at head of spine.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original paper-labeled, quarter cloth-backed batik-patterned boards. Edges very slightly dust-dulled as with age. Remains particularly and uncommonly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 146 pages; Description: viii, 146 p. ; 20 cm. Genre: Poetry. Signed, dated and with a lengthy inscription by the author to [Mark? ]. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Impression. Alternate binding of smooth blue cloth over blue and orange batik paper covered boards, in dull orange dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 146pp. INSCRIBED by Acton on the free front endpaper "from the embarrassed author" and SIGNED to his bibliographer Neil Ritchie, dated 1986. Beautiful copy. Q09036.

Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: . 1st Edition, signed and inscribed by the author. Blue cloth backed, paper covered boards with a title to the spine, vii,146[2]pp. Signed by the author and inscribed to the front free endpaper, "To Nigel/ from Harold/ "with all piety"/1929. The dedication page also has the dedication to Desmond Harmsworth and Evelyn Waugh crossed out and "To Nigel Richards" inserted by the author. Light rubbing to the spine tips edges and corners with toning and rubbing to the titles label which has minor loss along the top and some marking to the boards. Internally there is a hint of spotting to the free endpapers and light toning to the adjacent page. Harold Acton was a prominent member of the group dubbed 'The Bright Young Things' and mixed with many of the intellectual and literary figures of the day, including Evelyn Waugh who based the character of Anthony Blanche in Brideshead Revisited in part on him. The inscribee, Nigel Richards was the basis for the main character in Cyril Connolly's book, 'The Rock Pool'. He was a stock broker who became a tea planter in Burma where his first wife was eaten by a crocodile. Richard's was killed during World War II when his plane was shot down over Germany. Connolly descrbed him as a 'doomed romantic, a privileged charismatic man intent on self-destruction and brought down by war, women and wanderlust.' An excellent signed association copy. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

First edition, first impression. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Edward when he's in a poetic mood; these juvenilia from his old friend Harold". Octavo. Original quarter blue cloth, marbled boards, printed paper label to spine. With dust jacket. Lightly rubbed at extremities, corners bumped, slight dampstain to rear free endpaper. An excellent copy in the price-clipped, rubbed, and chipped jacket with closed tears to the folds of the jacket and a little dampstain to the lower panels.

1927, London, Robert Holden and Co., ppviii + 146, blue cloth spine, coloured paper boards. Nice inscription from the author to Edward Hutton. Slightly faded, slightly foxed, otherwise good.