HEARING SECRET HARMONIES.
London: William Heinemann, 1975.
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 with a Broom-Lynne designed wrapper, 272pp.
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 twelfth volume brings the 'Dance to the Music of Time' saga to a close. Having delineated British cultural and political life from the 1920's, we now find ourselves in the late 1960's with the rise of a hippy counter-culture in England. This copy and mylar protected, price-clipped dust jacket are in very good condition to fine condition.
Item #34361 Price: US$80.00