A Question of Upbringing. A Novel.

  • Powell, Anthony
  • London: William Heinemann Ltd 1951
  • Lilley A8.

£2,000

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Description

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. [viii], 230. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt on a black ground, dustjacket printed in black, yellow and red. Dustjacket lightly soiled, rubbed at folds, a little chipped, small tears at ends of joints, a touch sunned to spine-panel.

Notes

The first edition, first state of the first book in the series 'A Dance to The Music of Time', with the misprinted half-title. 'It was my intention that an additional half-title, indicating the name of the whole sequence. The Music of Time (followed by asterisks denoting the number of the volume), should appear on the page preceding that opening the narrative. After I had passed Proofs some over-enthusiastic supervisor altered this sub-heading to A Question of Upbringing, already used on the first page as half-title. This was soon put right, so that a 'first state' exists in the first edition' (Powell, Faces in my Time, quoted in Lilley).

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