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Lot 191

POWELL (ANTHONY)
Afternoon Men, Eton, Savile Press, [1922] (5)

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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POWELL (ANTHONY)

Afternoon Men, faded ownership inscription dated June 1931 on front free endpaper, 1931; Venusberg, DUST-JACKET designed by Misha Black, 1932; From a View to a Death, 1933, Duckworth; What's Become of Waring, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED "For Aunt Kittie with love from Tony" on front free endpaper, Cassell, 1939, FIRST EDITIONS, light spotting, publisher's cloth, 8vo--The Eton Candle. Edited by Brian Howard, vol. 1 [all published], including a full-page illustration by Anthony Powell, other contributors include Harold Acton, Brian Howard, Sacheverell and Osbert Sitwell, Aldous Huxley and Maurice Baring, publisher's boards, spine crudely repaired with tape, 4to, Eton, Savile Press, [1922] (5)

Footnotes

FIRST EDITIONS OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST THREE NOVELS, along with an inscribed copy of his fifth. Powell's illustration 'Colonel Caesar Cannonbrains of the Black Hussars' in The Eton Candle was his first appearance in print.

Provenance: Anthony Powell, bookplate.

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