Estimate: | £200 - £300 |
POWELL, Anthony (1905-2000). [A Dance to the Music of Time: comprising]: A Question of Upbringing ... Reprinted 1974; A Buyer's Market ... Reprinted 1974; The Acceptance World ... Reprinted 1972; At Lady Molly's ... Reprinted 1971; Casanova's Chinese Restaurant ... Reprinted 1969; The Kindly Ones ... Reprinted 1975; The Valley of Bones ... Reprinted 1973. The Soldier's Art ... First published 1966; The Military Philosophers ... First published 1968; Books do Furnish a Room ... First published 1971; Temporary Kings ... First published 1973; Hearing Secret Harmonies ... First published 1975. All London: Heinemann, [various dates as above]. Together 12 volumes, 8vo (186 x 125mm). Half titles. Original red cloth gilt, dust-jackets (dust-jackets variously worn, most with significant loss to backstrips, some fraying). Provenance: the first 2 vols. signed "McKenzie Johnston"; each vol. numbered in biro on front free endpapers. Mixed editions, but the last 5 titles FIRST EDITIONS. The dust-jackets of the reprints all follow the original designs. (12)