The Actons Tapa dura - 1978

Hardback. Very Good.

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1978.. /Dust Jacket Included. 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 024189977X 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 212pp, illustrated, slight browning, otherwise clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Good dustwrapper; wrapper price-clipped, spine slightly faded, ISBN: 024189977X .

London: H.Hamilton. Very Good/Very Good. 1978. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 024189977x Dust jacket complete, price clipped, fading to spine. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Previous owner's ownership label. Plates. 212 pages clean and tight. Like the Cecils, Darwins and Huxleys, the family of Acton has a dazzling pedigree in terms of achievement and intelligence with more than its share of statesmen, sailors, soldiers, scholars, writers, and men and women of outstanding personal character. Yet there is a difference, in that the Actons are an international dynasty, with many aristocratic links in Europe. The most spectacular Acton was perhaps the sixth baronet, Sir John, who at the end of the eighteenth century became not only Prime Minister of the Two Sicilies but commander of both the land and sea forces. Queen Maria Carolina was in love with him, but to no avail; at the age of sixty-three he obtained papal dispensation in order to marry his… Leer más

London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1978. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardback. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition, first printing Octavo hardback. 224 pp. Black & white illustrations Near Fine condition in Very Good, unclipped dust jacket. Book previous ly owned by Alice Lewis (nee Acton) who has written her name on the front end paper.

Penguin Books, Limited. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hamish Hamilton, 1978. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. Good/V.g.. Ex-library book with traces of labels and stamps. Little used.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: [10], 212p, [2] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 22cm. Includes index. Publisher's blue cloth binding. Bibliography: p.198-200. Subjects: Acton, Harold Mario Mitchell 1904-1994. Acton (Family) History. Acton family.

H. Hamilton, 1978. Hardcover. Good.