A Buyer's Market
1952
$863.00
First UK edition first impression from 1952 in VG+ condition, pages are toned but clean, binding firm. The jacket is from a 1955 edition, now in removable protective sleeve.
A Buyer's Market
The second novel in Anthony Powell's twelve-novel series A Dance to the Music of Time. Published in 1952, it continues the story of narrator Nick Jenkins with his introduction into society after boarding school and university.
The book presents new characters, notably the painter Mr. Deacon, female acquaintance Gypsy Jones and artist Ralph Barnby, as well as reappearances by Jenkins' school friends Peter Templer, Charles Stringham and Kenneth Widmerpool. The action takes place in London high society in the late 1920s. At a dinner party there is discussion of the Earl Haig statue
