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LONDON: HAMISH HAMILTON, 1972
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ACTON, Harold. Tit for Tat and other tales.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1972
8°. Half title. Original cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, 'For H.R.H. Princess Margaret, with humble duty and affection, from the old aesthete, Haroldo.'
With 3 other books by the same author, ALL PRESENTATION COPIES TO PRINCESS MARGARET, namely Prince Isidore (London, 1950, inscribed ' ... a little old talisman for perusal among the Girl Guides ...' ), The Bourbons of Naples (London, 1963, inscribed "... a small souvenir of her fervent admirer ...") and Three Extraordinary Ambassadors (London, 1983, inscribed "... with the devotion of her antique friend ..."), and John Pope-Hennessy's Raphael (New York, 1970, inscribed by Harold Acton "... with the devoted homage of a frustrated painter ..."). (5)
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1972
8°. Half title. Original cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, 'For H.R.H. Princess Margaret, with humble duty and affection, from the old aesthete, Haroldo.'
With 3 other books by the same author, ALL PRESENTATION COPIES TO PRINCESS MARGARET, namely Prince Isidore (London, 1950, inscribed ' ... a little old talisman for perusal among the Girl Guides ...' ), The Bourbons of Naples (London, 1963, inscribed "... a small souvenir of her fervent admirer ...") and Three Extraordinary Ambassadors (London, 1983, inscribed "... with the devotion of her antique friend ..."), and John Pope-Hennessy's Raphael (New York, 1970, inscribed by Harold Acton "... with the devoted homage of a frustrated painter ..."). (5)
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