To Keep the Ball Rolling, The Memoirs of Anthony Powell, Volume IV (Vol 4), The Strangers All Are Gone
by Powell, Anthony
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine condition/Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0434599417
- ISBN 13
- 9780434599417
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About This Item
London: Heinemann, 1982. Unread copy. Fine condition in a Fine Jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Fresh and crisp. Original price from the Dust Jacket's inner flap has been clipped by the publisher and replaced with a "Heinemann Group" sticker that gives the new price as "Net £15.00." First U.K. printing, with "First published 1982" and NO indication of any other printing. Illustrated with 16 pages of photos (32 photos in all). Bound in the original dark gray cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "This fourth and last volume of Anthony Powell's memoirs (with the overall title of TO KEEP THE BALL ROLLING) begins about the year 1952 and continues more or less to the present day… It begins with the author's move from London to the country. After that was the literary editorship of Punch, various theatrical adventures, travel to the US and Far East, incidents like the Chatterley trial. Various writers are discussed, including J. Maclaren-Ross, Jocelyn Brooke, Malcolm Muggeridge, Kingsley Amis, Robert Conquest, Alison Lurie, V. S. Naipaul, Rupert Hart-Davis, and several more, together with the great archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler.". First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. viii, 208pp. + 16 pages of photos.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- To Keep the Ball Rolling, The Memoirs of Anthony Powell, Volume IV (Vol 4), The Strangers All Are Gone
- Author
- Powell, Anthony
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0434599417
- ISBN 13
- 9780434599417
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1982
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography; Literature / Literary Biography / Criticism;
- Size
- 8vo. viii, 208pp. + 16 pages of photos
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