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Contents
A. A Dance to the Music of Time
B. Other Fiction
C. Biography
D. Literary Criticism, Reviews
  		E. Memoirs, Autobiography
F. Other Works Containing Pieces by AP
G. Books about AP & His Work

The following tables give approximate minimum UK market prices for secondhand copies of Anthony Powell's works and AP-related books. The valuations are for copies of the specified edition, in Very Good (VG) condition or better, with dust-wrapper where indicated. Other editions will vary in value, but are generally likely to be lower. Some of the books listed may still be in print -- check before buying a used copy at an inflated price. The AP Bibliography contains more detail about some volumes.

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h/b = hardback, p/b = paperback, d/w = dust wrapper, vna = valuation not available.

A. A Dance to the Music of Time

Author Title Publisher Date Edn Cover Price (£)
Anthony Powell A Dance to the Music of Time
(complete set, 12vv)		 Heinemann 1st h/b, d/w from 4000
A Question of Upbringing Heinemann 1951 1st h/b, d/w 1200
A Buyer's Market Heinemann 1952 1st h/b, d/w 800
The Acceptance World Heinemann 1955 1st h/b, d/w 600
At Lady Molly's Heinemann 1957 1st h/b, d/w 130
Casanova's Chinese Restaurant Heinemann 1960 1st h/b, d/w 70
The Kindly Ones Heinemann 1962 1st h/b, d/w 60
The Valley of Bones Heinemann 1964 1st h/b, d/w 50
The Soldier's Art Heinemann 1966 1st h/b, d/w 40
The Military Philosophers Heinemann 1968 1st h/b, d/w 35
Books Do Furnish a Room Heinemann 1971 1st h/b, d/w 35
Temporary Kings Heinemann 1973 1st h/b, d/w 30
Hearing Secret Harmonies Heinemann 1975 1st h/b, d/w 30

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B. Other Fiction

Author Title Publisher Date Edn Cover Price (£)
Anthony Powell Afternoon Men Duckworth 1931 1st h/b, d/w 3000
Venusberg Duckworth 1932 1st h/b, d/w 1500
From a View to a Death Duckworth 1933 1st h/b, d/w 1000
Caledonia, A Fragment privately printed 1934 1st h/b, d/w 3000
Agents and Patients Duckworth 1936 1st h/b, d/w 4000
What's Become of Waring Cassell 1939 1st h/b, d/w 600
A Reference for Mellors Moorehouse & Sorensen 1994 200 ltd edn d/w 500
Two Plays: The Garden God, The Rest I'll Whistle Heinemann 1971 1st h/b, d/w 30
O, how the wheel becomes it! Heinemann 1983 1st h/b, d/w 15
The Fisher King Heinemann 1986 1st h/b, d/w 20
Mark Members [aka. Anthony Powell] Iron Aspidistra Sycamore Press 1985 1st p/b 35

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C. Biography

Author Title Publisher Date Edn Cover Price (£)
Anthony Powell The Barnard Letters Duckworth 1928 1st h/b, d/w 170
John Aubrey and his Friends Heinemann 1948 1st h/b, d/w 50
John Aubrey and his Friends Heinemann 1963 2nd revised h/b, d/w 30
Brief Lives & Other Selected Writings by John Aubrey Cresset Press 1949 1st h/b, d/w 40

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D. Literary Criticism, Reviews, etc.

Author Title Publisher Date Edn Cover Price (£)
Anthony Powell Novels of High Society in the Victorian Age Pilot Press 1947 1st h/b, d/w 20
Miscellaneous Verdicts: Writings on Writers 1946-1989 Heinemann 1990 1st h/b, d/w 25
Under Review: Further Writings on Writers 1946-1989 Heinemann 1991 1st h/b, d/w 25

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E. Memoirs/Autobiography

Author Title Publisher Date Edn Cover Price (£)
Anthony Powell To Keep the Ball Rolling
(complete set, 4vv)		 Heinemann 1st h/b, d/w from 130
To Keep the Ball Rolling, Vol I. Infants of the Spring Heinemann 1976 1st h/b, d/w 25
To Keep the Ball Rolling, Vol II. Messengers of Day Heinemann 1978 1st h/b, d/w 25
To Keep the Ball Rolling, Vol III. Faces in My Time Heinemann 1980 1st h/b, d/w 30
To Keep the Ball Rolling, Vol IV. The Strangers All Are Gone Heinemann 1982 1st h/b, d/w 25
To Keep the Ball Rolling (abridged) Penguin Books 1983 1st p/b 7
Journals 1982-1986 Heinemann 1995 1st h/b, d/w 20
Journals 1982-1986 Heinemann 1996 1st p/b 10
Journals 1987-1989 Heinemann 1996 1st h/b, d/w 20
Journals 1987-1989 Heinemann 1997 1st p/b 10
Journals 1990-1992 Heinemann 1997 1st h/b, d/w 20
Journals 1990-1992 Heinemann 1998 1st p/b 10
A Writer's Notebook Heinemann 2001 1st h/b, d/w 15

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F. Other Works Containing Pieces By Anthony Powell

Author Title Publisher Date Edn Cover Price (£)
Cuthbert Bede The Adventures of Mr Verdant Greene, An Oxford Undergraduate OUP (New York) 1982 1st h/b, d/w 6
Nicholas Bentley The Pick of Punch: An Annual Selection André Deutsch 1957 1st h/b, d/w 10
Jocelyn Brooke The Orchid Trilogy Secker & Warburg 1981 1st h/b, d/w 10
  Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry Burke's Peerage Publications 1965 1st h/b, d/w vna
Edward Chaney & Neil Ritchie (editors) Oxford, China, and Italy: Writings in Honour of Sir Harold Acton Thames & Hudson 1984 1st h/b, d/w 50
Ronald Firbank The Complete Ronald Firbank Duckworth 1961 1st h/b, d/w 75
Graham Greene (Editor) The Old School: Essays by Diverse Hands Jonathan Cape 1934 1st h/b, d/w 90
EW Hornung Raffles, The Amateur Cracksman Eyre & Spottiswoode 1950 1st h/b, d/w 10
Hugh Lloyd-Jones Maurice Bowra: A Celebration Duckworth 1974 1st h/b, d/w 15
Peter Quennell Marcel Proust: A Centennial Volume Simon & Schuster (New York) 1971 1st h/b, d/w 15
Cyril Ray The Complete Imbiber 7: An Entertainment Studio Vista 1964 1st h/b, d/w 15
Cyril Ray The Complete Imbiber 10         15
Dale Salwak Kingsley Amis: In Life and Letters Macmillan 1990 1st h/b, d/w 20
Richard Shead Constant Lambert: His Life, His Music and His Friends Simon Publications 1973 1st h/b, d/w 15

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G. Books About Anthony Powell & His Work

Author Title Publisher Date Edn Cover Price (£)
Rudolf Bader Anthony Powell's Music of Time as a Cyclic Novel of Generations Francke (Bern) 1980 1st h/b, d/w 10
Bernard Bergonzi Anthony Powell: Writers and their Work 144 Longman, Green 1962 1st p/b 5
Bernard Bergonzi (rev. Ian Scott-Kalvert) Writers and their Work No 221: Anthony Powell Longman 1971 1st h/b, d/w 5
Neil Brennan Anthony Powell Twayne (New York) 1974 1st h/b, d/w 15
Neil Brennan Anthony Powell Twayne (New York) 1995 2nd revised h/b, d/w 12
AS Byatt Selected Writings: Passions of the Mind Chatto & Windus 1991 1st h/b, d/w 20
Dan Davin Snow Upon Fire: A Dance to the Music of Time, Anthony Powell University College Swansea 1976 1st p/b 25
Mary Eagleton & David Pierce Attitudes to Class in the English Novel from Walter Scott to David Storey Thames & Hudson 1979 1st h/b, d/w 10
Lynette Felber Gender and Genre in Novels Without End: The British Roman-Fleuve University Press of Florida 1995 1st h/b 15
Laurie Adams Frost Reminiscent Scrutinies: Memory in Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time Whitston Publishing (New York) 1990 1st h/b, d/w 15
Michael Gorra The English Novel at Mid-Century Macmillan 1990 1st h/b, d/w 20
Isabelle Joyau Investigating Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time St Martin's Press 1994 1st h/b, d/w 25
Frederick R Karl A Reader's Guide to the Contemporary English Novel Farrar, Strauss & Cudahy (New York) 1962 1st h/b, d/w 10
George Lilley Anthony Powell: A Bibliography St Paul's Bibliographies 1993 1st h/b 50
Neil McEwan Anthony Powell Macmillan 1991 1st p/b 15
Arthur Mizener The Sense of Life in the Modern Novel Houghton Mifflin 1965 1st h/b, d/w 8
Robert K Morris The Novels of Anthony Powell University of Pitsburgh Press 1968 1st h/b, d/w 10
Lady Violet Powell The Album of Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time Thames & Hudson 1987 1st h/b, d/w 40
Five Out of Six     1st h/b, d/w 50
Within the Family Circle   1976 1st h/b, d/w 50
The Departure Platform Heinemann 1998 1st h/b, d/w 15
John Russell Anthony Powell, A Quintet, Sextet and War Indiana University Press 1970 1st h/b, d/w 25
Robert L Selig Time and Anthony Powell: A Critical Study Fairleigh Dickinson 1991 1st h/b, d/w 10
Hilary Spurling Handbook to Dance to the Music of Time Heinemann 1977 1st h/b, d/w 50
Invitation to the Dance Mandarin 1992 1st p/b 10
Patrick Swinden The English Novel of History and Society 1940-1980 Macmillan 1984 1st h/b, d/w vna
James Tucker The Novels of Anthony Powell Macmillan 1976 1st h/b, d/w 12

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