AUTHOR'S OWN COPY OF HIS FIRST BOOK
Afternoon Men
Duckworth, 1931.
First edition. Original sage green cloth lettered in gilt. Author's own copy with his bookplate to the front pastedown. A near fine copy with an erased inscription to the front endpaper and a little foxing to the page edges, but bright and clean.
The author's first book which predates his famous 'Dance to the Music of Time' series by twenty years. Written whilst he was working at Duckworth, he was able to supervise the production of the book himself.
PROVENANCE: Anthony Powell (bookplate to the front pastedown); purchased from the author's estate.
Stock ID: 35711
£1,250.00
