The Album Of Anthony Powell's Dance To The Music Of Time Powell,Violet [Editor]; Literature

First Edition. Preface by Anthony Powell. Introduction by John Bayley. 4to. pp.152. list of illustrations,index. Original cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper.Very good copy. "There has never been a book like this before and without the discrimination of the editor Lady Violet Powell, and the close interest of the author himself, it could not have been done. It provides a vivid preview of the pleasures in store to the readers of the novels. These novels were written in what was called the language of pictures there are many paintings real and fictional that play a role in the narrative and throughout even the everyday scenes create a vividly detailed visual impression. In this book in a beguiling mixture of the real world and a fiction the whole story unfolds in more than 200 drawings paintings and photographs accompanied by extracts from the novel.'.