POWELL, Anthony. To Keep the Ball Rolling. The Memoirs of Anthony Powell in four volumes, comprising Infants of the Spring, Messengers of Day, Faces in My Time, and The Strangers are all Gone. London: Heinemann. 1976-1982. Large 8vos. First editions, first printings. Original cloth boards in matching dust jackets designed by Philip Mann. The set very good indeed, the boards generally fine, light marks to extremities of first volume only. The bindings all tight and square, each with faint spots to textblock top edges. The contents fine, though first volume with light offsetting to endpapers and prelims, one ink annotation to text and accompanying reference to rear endpaper of fourth volume. The dust jackets unclipped and all complete, some mild fading to spines, light rubbing to flap joints, but a pleasing set overall and uncommon as such.
A most impressive set of autobiography, covering Powell from his childhood, his Oxford education, his entry into the London literati, his marriage to Violet Pakenham, his composition of his opus, A Dance to the Music of Time, and his many, many friendships with a plethora of notable authors working in the twentieth century, British or otherwise.
POWELL, Anthony. To Keep the Ball Rolling. The Memoirs of Anthony Powell in four volumes, comprising Infants of the Spring, Messengers of Day, Faces in My Time, and The Strangers are all Gone. London: Heinemann. 1976-1982. Large 8vos. First editions, first printings. Original cloth boards in matching dust jackets designed by Philip Mann. The set very good indeed, the boards generally fine, light marks to extremities of first volume only. The bindings all tight and square, each with faint spots to textblock top edges. The contents fine, though first volume with light offsetting to endpapers and prelims, one ink annotation to text and accompanying reference to rear endpaper of fourth volume. The dust jackets unclipped and all complete, some mild fading to spines, light rubbing to flap joints, but a pleasing set overall and uncommon as such.
A most impressive set of autobiography, covering Powell from his childhood, his Oxford education, his entry into the London literati, his marriage to Violet Pakenham, his composition of his opus, A Dance to the Music of Time, and his many, many friendships with a plethora of notable authors working in the twentieth century, British or otherwise.
