Anthony. A Dance to the Music of Time

by POWELL

£25,000 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

The Powell Family Copies of A Dance to the Music of Time POWELL, Anthony. A Dance to the Music of Time London: Heinemann . 1951–1975. 8vo. Twelve volumes, ten of them Powell family copies. Original red cloth, spines lettered in gilt to black lettering-pieces, in the original James Broom Lynne dust-jackets; a few scattered spots to text-block edges of At Lady Molly’s and The Kindly Ones ; the ten family copies are uncommonly well-preserved and fresh, the Broom Lynne wrappers remarkably bright, the colours vivid, the volumes seemingly unread; occasional light edge-wear; with the Powell family bookplate to each pastedown, the remaining two titles, A Buyer’s Market and The Valley of Bones are supplied non-family copies of the first printings, both in wrappers, the former in the first state wrapper with wide inner flaps (the front neatly clipped) with some discreet repairs to spine ends and folds and a small date neatly stamped to the lower corner of the rear flap, previous owner’s name neatly in ink to front free endpaper, light spotting to fore-edges; The Valley of Bones , a near-fine copy, in like, unclipped wrapper, just a touch rubbed to spine tips and corners. Anthony Powell’s own, and family, copies of ten of the twelve volumes of A Dance to the Music of Time , all first printings, with first printings of the two remaining volumes supplied; the author’s masterpiece and one of the monuments of twentieth-century fiction in English; four volumes are inscribed by the author: tw

• Binding: Hardcover

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