Powell (Anthony) Afternoon Men
£295
London, Duckworth, 1931.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards.
A novel of dissipated young London life in the early 1930s – parties, meaningless relationships, and a backdrop of social futility, seen through the eyes of Atwater, a minor museum official.
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An attractively bound edition.
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