ACTON, Harold. Aquarium. London: Duckworth & Co., [1923]. 8°. Half title. Original paper-backed decorated boards (foot of spine torn away), glassine wrapper (torn with slight loss). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front free endpaper, “To my very dear friend and credens-ne god-father – Roger Spence from Harold Acton. April 1923.” With 6 other books by the same author, namely An Indian Ass (London, [1925], PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, “To Roger, one of the guardians of my soul. Query: does he approve of it? With much love from Harold Acton, 1925”), Five Saints and an Appendix (London, 1927, inscribed “To a unique survivor of the Eighteenth Century; to Pino Orioli, cordially, from Harold Acton, 1928”), Cornelian (London, [1928], coloured title by McKnight Kauffer, ONE OF 550 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, with Lytton Strachey’s bookplate), Modern Chinese Poetry (London, [1936], TRANSLATOR’S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, “To Christopher and Sylvia with love from Harold Acton, Peiping, 1936”), Famous Chinese Plays (Peiping, 1937, TRANSLATOR’S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, “To Christopher and Sylvia with much affection from Harold. The plays for you to read are ‘I P’eng Hsuch’ and ‘Ts’ui P’ing Shaw’ (p.364)” and Peonies and Ponies. A Novel (London, 1941, PRESENTATON COPY, inscribed, “To dear Podge [ie. Roger Spence] with much affection from his old crony Harold, 1941”).