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The Acceptance World

The Acceptance World

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The Acceptance World

by Anthony Powell

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Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1955. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 214 pages. First American edition. Third of 12 in the roman-fleuve A Dance to the Music of Time. 8vo (5-1/2" x 8-1/4"), olive paper over boards with black cloth quarter, silver gilt lettering on spine, corners bumped, 1-1/2" separation of backstrip at rear of spine from top reglued, edges age-toned, bookstore price in pencil on ffep. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff and date Aug. 1957 written on ffep, his underscoring and/or marginalia in very light pencil on approximately 60 pages.

Synopsis

Anthony Powell was born in 1905. He served in the army during World War II. He is the author of seven other novels, and four volumes of memoirs, To Keep the Ball Rolling .

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Bookseller
Berthoff Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
WBB-821
Title
The Acceptance World
Author
Anthony Powell
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Good
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Quantity Available
1
Edition
1st Edition
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Cudahy
Date Published
1955
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME, NOVEL
Bookseller catalogs
English literature; Anthony Powell;

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Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.

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Cloth
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Marginalia
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Gilt
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Edges
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