[POWELL, ANTHONY]. ‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ series. London: Heinemann, 1958-1975.
MIXED UK EDITIONS; complete set in twelve volumes, comprising: A Question of Upbringing, reprinted April 1961; A Buyer’s Market, reprinted 1964; The Acceptance World, reprinted 1975; At Lady Molly’s, reprinted 1958; Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant, first edition 1960; The Kindly Ones, first edition 1962; The Valley of Bones, first edition 1964; The Soldier’s Art, first edition 1966; The Military Philosophers, first edition 1968; Books Do Furnish a Room, first edition 1971; Temporary Kings, first edition 1973; Hearing Secret Harmonies, first edition 1975. Cloth-bound, hardcovers with original dust jackets, octavos, bound in publisher's original covers, initial and terminal blanks plus half-titles present. Condition: VERY GOOD. The Acceptance World and Hearing Secret Harmonies have a previous owner’s name to front endpaper. At Lady Molly’s has slight shading to jacket spine. Hearing Secret Harmonies has neatly price-clipped jacket. Military Philosophers has a corner clipped with printed price present. The price label has lifted from A Question of Upbringing. Temporary Kings complete with award wrapper. Faint foxing to some closed edges, top edges slightly dusty, the interiors largely fresh and clean. Overall a very well-preserved set.
Notes: Eight first printings and four reprints from the 1958 and 1975, all in original Broome-Lynne designed dust jackets. A handsome complete set of this famous series - often a comic examination of movements and manners, power and passivity in English political, cultural and military life in the mid-twentieth century.
