Memoirs of An Aesthete 1939-1969

Acton, Harold

Verlag: Viking Press, New York, 1971

Beschreibung

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. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 032921

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Memoirs of An Aesthete 1939-1969

Verlag: Viking Press, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1971

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good

Signiert: Signed and Inscribed By the Author

Auflage: First American Edition.