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Acton (Harold) Aquarium,1st,inscr.,1923

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upper hinge weak, original patterned-paper boards, lacking backstrip, nick to top edge of upper board, 1923; An Indian Ass, original cloth, slightly soiled, 1923; Four Sonnets, folded sheet stapled in original blue-grey wrappers, n.p., n.d., the first two first editions, signed and inscribed by the author to Desmond Harmsworth on front free endpaper; and another from Acton's library with his signature, 8vo(4)

***The first two are the author's first and second published books, published while he was still at Oxford. Harmsworth met Acton at Oxford, other contemporaries being Evelyn Waugh and Cyril Connolly..

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