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Acton, Harold. Peonies and Ponies. Chatto & Windus, London, 1941.

Price: US$194.93 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: An uncommonly nice copy of this novel, elusive in the Chatto first edition. Original red publisher's cloth clean with no significant wear. Prelims and text block clean and firm with no blemishes. Top edge stained red as called for. Front pastedown shows minor signs of horizontal creasing at bottom due to a possible production fault or bump.

Seller: Frances Wetherell, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Harold Acton. Peonies and Ponies, a Novel. Chatto and Windus, London, 1941.

Price: US$318.39 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Red cloth, yellow dustjacket, somewhat shelf soiled and creased to spine and top edges. Scarce, with jacket.

Seller: PEND BOOKS, Newton Stewart, United Kingdom

ACTON, Harold. Peonies and Ponies. Chatto & Windus, London, 1941.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition. Near fine with minor soiling and a little tanned at the spine.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

ACTON, HAROLD. Peonies and Ponies. CHATTO & WINDUS, London, 1941.

Price: US$850.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A nice collectable copy of a VERY rare book!

Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, albany, NY, U.S.A.

Acton, Harold. Peonies And Ponies : Signed By The Author. Chatto and Windus, London, 1941.

Price: US$903.18 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The First UK printing published by Chatto and Windus, London in 1941. The BOOK is in Very Good++ or better condition. Light pushing and fading at the extreme spine tips. Some mild dulling to the gilt titling to the spine. Some very slight toning and spotting to the text-block. Mild offsetting to the front blank end-papers. The crimson top-stain is still very bright. The WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good++ or better condition. Light edge-wear at the spine tips. Some toning to the flaps and folds. A little age related markings in places. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. The book has been inscribed and signed by the author to the front blank end-paper : 'To Herbert Van Thal, one of the very few who are kind about my writing, most gratefully, from , Harold Acton'. The recipient Herbert Van Thal, was a British bookseller, publisher, agent, biographer, and anthologist. A scarce copy with such attributes. Collectible. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.

Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom

ACTON, Harold.. Peonies and Ponies - A Novel.. Chatto & Windus, London., 1941.

Price: US$974.66 + shipping

Description: First edition. Octavo. pp viii, 310. A novel set in Peking.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the title-page: ''for Neil Ritchie, many years after! with warm regards, Harold Acton''. The recipient is Acton's bibliographer and editor of Oxford, China and Italy: Writings in Honour of Sir Harold Acton on His Eightieth Birthday (1985). He is also the bibliographer of Sacheverell Sitwell.Free endpapers a bit tanned. Very good in very good dustwrapper a bit darkened at the spine and edges.

Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom

Acton, Harold. PEONIES AND PONIES A NOVEL. Chatto & Windus, London, 1941.

Price: US$1650.00 + shipping

Description: Gilt cloth. Spine cocked, binding a bit darkened and handsoiled, a few spots to the top edge with a bit of bleed to the top edge of the front endsheets, some light foxing and creasing to a few corners, but a good copy, without dust jacket. First edition. An association copy of a high order, inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet to his contemporary, friend and fellow "Bright Young Thing," Cecil Beaton: "To my dear friend Cecil, the brilliant perpetuator of Paquita Gossamer's charms (see p. 288) with much love from Harold." The reference on p.288 is to a film star and hostess of late-night parties on the roof of the Peiping Palace Hotel, who has promised Freddie Follicle, social editor of the Peiping Star Bulletin, "an autographed 'study' of herself in SEMIRAMIS by Cecil Beaton." A few smudges on that page suggest that Beaton turned to it more than once. The first impression consisted of 1250 copies. RITCHIE A11a.

Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.