A QUESTION OF UPBRINGING
by ANTHONY POWELL
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Havant, Hampshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
MELBOURNE, LONDON, TORONTO: WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD, 1951. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Boards rubbed and lightly marked, spine spine slightly darkened, endpapers lightly foxed. Clean throughout. Good.
Synopsis
A Question of Upbringing is the opening novel in Anthony Powell's masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time, a twelve-volume cycle spanning much of the 20th century. Published in 1951, it begins the story of a trio of boys, Nicholas Jenkins (the narrator), Charles Stringham, and Peter Templer, who are friends at a nameless school (based upon Powell's public school Eton College) and then move onto different paths.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tobo Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007132
- Title
- A QUESTION OF UPBRINGING
- Author
- ANTHONY POWELL
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Printing
- Publisher
- WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD
- Place of Publication
- MELBOURNE, LONDON, TORONTO
- Date Published
- 1951
- Pages
- -1
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....