Anthony Powell

A collection of first editions of Powell’s classic novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time.

• Sold as a set of 12 volumes.
• Anthony Powell
• London: Heinemann, [1951-1975].
• Octavo.
• Red cloth, pictorial dust jackets.

“I’m reading Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time, an hilarious and very good work. The only book I know that takes Proust’s habitual narrative gestures, Anglicizes them, and succeeds in the effort. In fact, Powell is the best critical study of Proust.” — Guy Davenport.

The author‘s stand-in, Nick Jenkins, moves at all levels of British society and his recurring encounters with schoolmates, rivals, opportunities, relics, and schemers offers Powell the greatest range for the tricky acrobatics of his prose. An attractive set of first editions of this landmark of twentieth-century British literature. Comprising:

1. A Question of Upbringing, 1951

2. A Buyer’s Market, 1952

3. The Acceptance World, 1955

4. At Lady Molly’s, 1957

5. Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant, 1960

6. The Kindly Ones, 1962

7. The Valley of Bones, 1964

8. The Soldier’s Art, 1966

9. The Military Philosophers, 1968

10. Books Do Furnish a Room, 1971

11. Temporary Kings, 1973