RAVEN, Simon (1908-2001). Alms for Oblivion, London, 1964-76, 11 vols. including one duplicate, 8vo, original cloth; and 3 others by the same author. ALL FIRST EDITIONS, in dust-jackets, two inscribed by the author. Please see the full listing below. (14)

RAVEN, Simon (1908-2001). The Alms for Oblivion sequence, listed in order of the date of publication, comprising: The Rich Pay Late (London, 1964), Friends in Low Places (London, 1965), The Sabre Squadron (London, 1966, TWO COPIES, one a PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "Robin Maugham, With best wishes, From Simon Raven, September, 1966"), Fielding Gray (London, 1967), The Judas Boy (London, 1968), Places Where They Sing (London, 1970), Sound The Retreat (London, 1971), Come Like Shadows (London, 1972), Bring Forth the Body (London, 1974) and The Survivors (London, 1976), all FIRST EDITIONS published by Anthony Blond, in dust-jackets; together with 3 other books by the same author, namely, The Feathers of Death (London, 1959, THE AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL, SIGNED "Simon Raven, September, 1981" and further signed by the publisher, "Anthony Blond, 24.12.97"), Brother Cain (London, 1959) and Doctors Wear Scarlet (London, 1960), all FIRST EDITIONS, in dust-jackets. "There are some people who consider the greatest cycle of twentieth-century novels to be Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time. These people are wrong. Widmerpool and his joyless accomplices are as nothing compared to the characters in Simon Raven's majestic, scurrilous and scabrous Alms for Oblivion cycle" (from a later review in The Guardian). Provenance: from the Collection of the late Robert Michael Booth (1945-2024), publisher, writer, collector and broadcaster. (14)