ACTON, Harold and DOUGLAS, Norman.. The Last of The Medici Done Into English by Harold Acton with Introduction by Norman Douglas.. Privately Printed for Subscribers by G. Orioli Lungarno Corsini Florence, 1930.

Price: US$192.13 + shipping

Description: First edition. Limited to 365 copies only of which 350 are for sale. this being number 285. SIGNED by Douglas on last page of Introduction, page24 and SIGNED BY Acton at end of his preface on page 32. DW. Portrait frontis. Engravings. original brown cloth with gilt seal to upper bd and black morocco lettering piece. Lower edges, top of spine and small portion of spine faded. Wrapper very faded and lacks portions of spine. VG+ in VG- wrapper. Harold's translation of a lubricious 18th-century memoir of Gian Gastone de' Medici, The Last of the Medici, privately printed in Florence in 1930 as part of the Lungarno Series.

Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom

ACTON, Harold. Gian Gastone, The Last of the Medici. Orioli, Florence, 1930.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Introduction by Norman Douglas. Frontispiece portrait. 8vo, maroon boards, uncut, d.w. Florence Privately printed by Orioli, (1930). Limited First Edition. The lavender dust wrapper is fine except for being completely faded on the spine. One of 365 copies. The Lugarno Series, No. 2

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Acton, Harold ( SIGNED ) Douglas, Norman Introduction ( SIGNED ). The Last of the Medici Done Into English. Privately Printed for Subscribers By G. Orioli, Florence, 1930.

Price: US$336.59 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Fine but for touches of sun fade to head and heel of spine, in jacket with sun faded spine anda little wear to extremities, ( esp. at crown, which is missing top quarter inch. Signed by both Acton and Douglas. # 90 of 350 copies. Uncommon thus in jacket.

Seller: Renaissance Books, Victoria, BC, Canada

ACTON, Harold (translates). DOUGLAS, Norman (introduces).. The Last of the Medici done into English by Harold Acton.. Privately Printed for Subscribers by G. Orioli, Lungarno Corsini, Florence., 1930.

Price: US$608.41 + shipping

Description: First edition. Fourteen-page Introduction by Norman Douglas. Octavo. 159 pages. Frontispiece. Boards with gilt medallion on upper cover and gilt title-label on spine.Number 14 of 365 numbered copies printed on Binda hand-made paper, signed at the end of the Introduction by Douglas and at the end of the Translator's Preface by Acton.Presentation copy from Harold Acton, inscribed in the front free endpaper: ''In order to edify Bobbie and stimulate his phagocytes - affectionately Uncle Harold.'' The recipient is the art collector Robert Isaacson and it is possible that the inscription dates from the early fifties when he was romantically attached to the poet James Merrill and when the couple were in Paris at the same time as Acton. The reference to phagocytes perhaps implies that Isaacson was unwell at the time.Patch of slight fading to tail of spine. Very good indeed in good dustwrapper with three large chips.

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