POWELL, Anthony (1905-2000). A Dance to the Music of Time, London, 1951-75, 12 volumes, 8vo, uniformly bound in attractive later half burgundy morocco gilt. A COMPLETE SET, ALL FIRST EDITIONS. (12)

POWELL, Anthony (1905-2000).  A Dance to the Music of Time sequence, comprising: A Question of Upbringing (1951), A Buyer's Market (1952), The Acceptance World (1955), At Lady Molly's (1957), Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (1960), The Kindly Ones (1962), The Valley of Bones (1964), The Soldier's Art (1966), The Military Philosopher (1968), Books do Furnish a Room (1971), Temporary Kings (1973) and Hearing Secret Harmonies (1975), all London, William Heinemann, 8vo (186 x 125mm), all with half titles. Uniformly bound in attractive later half burgundy morocco [the bindings unsigned], spines lettered in gilt (without the dust-jackets). A COMPLETE SET OF POWELL'S CELEBRATED MAGNUM OPUS ATTRACTIVELY BOUND IN MOROCCO, ALL FIRST EDITIONS. Burgess Ninety-Nine Novels p.51: "Widmerpool and Moreland and Sir Magnus and the many others - some of them farcical eccentrics in the Waugh manner - deserve places in the eternal fictional pantheon, and the ambitiousness of the project is matched by the urbane skill with which it is executed. This is a work we may not always like, but we cannot ignore it"; Connolly Modern First Editions (1987): "... [I]t is still the wonderful A Dance to the Music of Time sequence that continues to seduce, prices of good copies of all of them having arisen considerably. Kenneth Widmerpool has become the anti pin-up of our time." (12)