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POWELL TO EDITH SITWELL 60. POWELL, Anthony VENUSBERG Duckworth, 1932.
POWELL TO BOBBIE BEVAN 61. POWELL, Anthony FROM A VIEW TO A DEATH Duckworth, 1933.
First edition. Original grey cloth with gilt titles in pictorial dustwrapper designed by Misha Black. Author’s presentation copy, inscribed on the front endpaper to Edith Sit- well “For Edith Sitwell, who was kind enough to express approval of a previous work, from the author, Tony Powell. Oct. 17th 1932” A very good copy, in a good dustwrap- per which has chips to the spine ends and top corner. [34004] £6,000 A fine association copy. The previous year Sitwell had written of Powell’s first novel, Afternoon Men, that “Mr Powell was by far the most amusing and incisive of... the bright young people”. Powell lost no time in presenting her with a copy of his second novel as this was inscribed at the time of publication.
First edition. Original olive cloth with gilt titles in pictorial dustwrapper designed by Misha Black. Author’s presentation copy, inscribed on the front endpaper to close friend, Bobby Bevan, “For Bobbie [sic], who covers the waterfront but, isn’t always watching the sea. from Tony Powell Feb 13th 1935”. A near fine copy, which is slightly cocked, in a very good dustwrapper indeed, which is complete and generally crisp with just a couple of trivial closed tears and some dustiness. [31455] £6,500 R.A. Bevan (1901-1974) was a member of the 1930s literary set and a particular friend of Anthony Powell. He became a significant figure in the advertising industry. R.D. Bloomfield writing his obituary in The Times described him as “the personification of the greatest days of English adver - tising”. Whilst at S.H. Benson, he worked with Dorothy L Sayers who based the character of Mr Ingleby in Murder Must Advertise on him.
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