POWELL, Anthony.
To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell.
London: William Heinemann, 1976-1982.
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First Editions of All Four Volumes of Anthony Powell's Memoirs, To Keep the Ball Rolling
First editions of all four volumes of Anthony Powell’s acclaimed memoirs, To Keep the Ball Rolling, by the author of the great twelve-novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time. Octavo, four volumes, original cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Comprising Infants of the Spring (1976), Messengers of Day (1978), Faces in My Time (1980), and The Strangers All Are Gone (1982). Each volume is fine in a near fine dust jacket. A handsome complete set of the memoirs of one of the major English novelists of the twentieth century.
To Keep the Ball Rolling is the four-volume autobiography of Anthony Powell (1905-2000), one of the major English novelists of the twentieth century, best known for his twelve-volume roman-fleuve A Dance to the Music of Time. Published between 1976 and 1982 and taking its overall title from a line in Joseph Conrad’s Chance, the memoirs carry Powell from his Edwardian childhood and his years at Eton and Oxford through his life among the writers and artists of interwar London, his wartime service, and his postwar literary career, offering an incomparable portrait of English literary and social life across the century. The individual volumes take their titles from Shakespeare.
To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell.
$600.00
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