Powell (Anthony) [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, A Question of Upbringing first state, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, all dated within the year of publicationon front free endpapers, 4 vol. additionally signed on title, some browning to endpapers, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, some rubbing and fading to spines, Buyers Market and Valley of Bones with some fraying to joints, Temporary Kings only with dust-jacket (spine toned, rubbing and chipping to extremities), 1951-75; and an inscribed 1953 edition of What's Become of Waring, 8vo (13)

⁂ A set of Powell's remarkable roman-fleuve, inscribed to his good friend Osbert Lancaster. Lancaster and Powell would meet through the literary circles of Oxford and remained friends for much of their lives. Lancaster would provide the cover illustrations for the first seven titles in the series, when they came to be published by Penguin, before he was replaced in this role by the publisher, much to Powell's dismay. The first seven volumes in the sequence are inscribed to Lancaster and his first wife, Karen Harris (until her death in 1964). The Soldier's Art is inscribed only to Lancaster and the final four titles are inscribed to Lancaster and his second wife, Anne Scott-James.