ACTON, Harold (1904-94). Peonies and Ponies. A Novel, London, 1951, 8vo, original red cloth, yellow dust-jacket printed in red and black. FIRST EDITION. Ritchie A11a.

ACTON, Harold (1904-94).  Peonies and Ponies. A Novel. London: Chatto & Windus, 1941. 8vo (187 x 125mm). Half title (some very light spotting and staining). Original red cloth, cloth spine label lettered in gilt, yellow dust-jacket printed in red and black with price of 8s. unclipped (the jacket with some very minor fraying at corners, the backstrip a little faded). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of this novel set in Peking of which 1,250 copies were printed. The author is perhaps chiefly remembered today as one of the so-called "Bright Young Things" of the 1920s, immortalised in the character of Anthony Blanche in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited (1945). Ritchie Harold Acton. A Bibliography A11a.