London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1960
Crown 8vo., bright red cloth, black painted label gilt to spine with publisher’s name at foot; together in the neatly-clipped pictorial dustwrapper desined by Broom Lynne; pp. [viii], 229, [iii]; slight shelf lean and bumping to spine tips; edges very lightly browned, with the odd spot to prelims; a very good copy in the very good dustwrapper, slightly scuffed to the upper panel with some darkening and rubbing to folds and edges.
First edition.
The fifth volume in the ‘Dance to the Music of Time’ series by Anthony Powell, which chronicles the life of Nicholas Jenkins and a further three hundred characters over the course of the twentieth century. Beginning at the end of the Second World War, this volume travels back to the late 1930s, where Powell introduces a new set of characters including the musician Moreland and the elderly novelist St John Clarke, and sets his plot amidst the Spanish Civil War, the Abdication Crisis, and the rise of the extremist parties in Europe.
“Do you remember that night at Casanova's Chinese Restaurant years ago? We talked about seducers and Don Juan and that sort of thing…”
Scarce in nice condition.
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1960
Crown 8vo., bright red cloth, black painted label gilt to spine with publisher’s name at foot; together in the neatly-clipped pictorial dustwrapper desined by Broom Lynne; pp. [viii], 229, [iii]; slight shelf lean and bumping to spine tips; edges very lightly browned, with the odd spot to prelims; a very good copy in the very good dustwrapper, slightly scuffed to the upper panel with some darkening and rubbing to folds and edges.
First edition.
The fifth volume in the ‘Dance to the Music of Time’ series by Anthony Powell, which chronicles the life of Nicholas Jenkins and a further three hundred characters over the course of the twentieth century. Beginning at the end of the Second World War, this volume travels back to the late 1930s, where Powell introduces a new set of characters including the musician Moreland and the elderly novelist St John Clarke, and sets his plot amidst the Spanish Civil War, the Abdication Crisis, and the rise of the extremist parties in Europe.
“Do you remember that night at Casanova's Chinese Restaurant years ago? We talked about seducers and Don Juan and that sort of thing…”
Scarce in nice condition.