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POWELL (ANTHONY)
The Acceptance World, [1955]; At Lady Molly's, [1957], FIRST EDITIONS, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPIES, INSCRIBED to "Alan [Pryce-Jones] from Tony. May 1955 [-October 1957]" on the front free endpapers, publisher's cloth, light spotting to edges of text block, dust-jackets ("Acceptance" with some V-shaped section torn away from lower cover with loss of several words, and small loss at head of spine), 8vo, William Heinemann (2)
Provenance: Alan Pryce-Jones (1908–2000), presentation inscriptions to him from the author. In 1946, shortly after he was made editor of the Times Literary Supplement, Pryce-Jones made Powell "responsible for the paper's fiction reviewing – and also as a regular fiction reviewer himself" (Jeremey Treglown, "Anthony Powell, 'Man of Letters' and Literary Editor", in Secret Harmonies. Journal of the Anthony Powell Society, No. 2, October 2007); by descent to the present owner.
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POWELL (ANTHONY) The Acceptance World, [1955]; At Lady Molly's, [1957], FIRST EDITIONS, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPIES INSCRIBED (2)
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- Lot #
- 118
- Currency
- GBP
- Location
- London, GB
- Lot Ends
- 3 Dec 2026, 14:57:00
- Auction Ends
- 3 Dec 2026, 16:47:00
- Auction Started
- 23 Nov 2026
- Lots in Auction
- 228