CASANOVA'S CHINESE RESTAURANT.
London: William Heinemann, 1960.
1st Edition. First U.K. edition, hardcover (7.1/2x 5.00”, 19.5 x 13.0 cm) with blood red cloth and gilt lettering on dark brown background to the spine wrapped in a Broom-Lynne dust jacket. There is an embossed Heinemann logo stamped on the bottom right back cover, 229 pp.
After some time in his young adulthood as a screen writer and newspaperman, mainly reviewing books, and hobnobbing with the likes of Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Powell (1905-2000) joined the military during the Second World War and subsequently started work on his Magnum Opus, A Dance to the Music of Time, a twelve volume novel depicting the interaction between British high society and its bohemian class between the 1920’s and the 1970’s.
The fifth installment of this twelve volume comedy of manners, Casanova's Chinese restaurant, delves further into the vicissitudes of married life as the Second World War looms.
This copy shows some very light wear on the cloth and unclipped Mylar-protected dust jacket with some edgewear.
Item #34326 Price: US$200.00