Handbook to Anthony Powell's Music of Time
by Spurling, Hilary
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine, with unclipped d/j (some tearing at top), black boards clean but some marking on front, gilt titling on spine bright, page
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About This Item
London: Heinemann, 1977. 1st. hardback. Fine, with unclipped d/j (some tearing at top), black boards clean but some marking on front, gilt titling on spine bright, pages unmarked and clean, tightly bound, some foxing on top edges. Owner's inscription on ffep.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Anthony PowellÕs A Dance to the Music of Time is a landmark of twentieth-century writing. Hilary Spurling has written an invaluable companion to the 12-volume masterpiece, creating a magnificent database of PowellÕs imagination and EnglandÕs cultural landscape.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC42131
- Title
- Handbook to Anthony Powell's Music of Time
- Author
- Spurling, Hilary
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine, with unclipped d/j (some tearing at top), black boards clean but some marking on front, gilt titling on spine bright, page
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1977
- Pages
- 330
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st, literary criticism, fiction, Anthony Powell
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9\"\" x 6\"\")
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