PRESENTATION COPY
Memoirs of an Aesthete 1939-1969.
New York.
The Viking Press, 1970.
First American edition.
8vo.
318pp. Original publisher's black cloth-backed purple paper boards, dustwrapper. A very good copy with only slightest of chipping to unclipped dustwrapper. Presentation copy, inscribed to recto of FFEP; 'For Mason and Florence / with all best wishes for / Christmas and the New Year / ever affectionately / Harold / 19 December 1973.'
The second volume of autobiography from novelist Harold Acton (1904-1994), titled More Memoirs of an Aesthete when released in Britain.
Mason Hammond (1903-2002), classical scholar at Harvard University, spouse of Florence Pierson (1909-1999). Hammond, a dedicated antiquary and authority on Latin and the Roman Empire, published numerous historical monographs and served with the MFAA or 'Monuments Men' during The Second World War.
£ 350.00
Antiquates Ref: 14541
Mason Hammond (1903-2002), classical scholar at Harvard University, spouse of Florence Pierson (1909-1999). Hammond, a dedicated antiquary and authority on Latin and the Roman Empire, published numerous historical monographs and served with the MFAA or 'Monuments Men' during The Second World War.
