First edition of Temporary Kings by Anthony Powell from 1973.

First impression in fine condition, no markings, pages clean, binding firm, the jacket is also fine, now in removable protective sleeve.

Temporary Kings

is a novel byAnthony Powell, thepenultimatein his twelve-volume novel,A Dance to the Music of Time. It was published in 1973 byHeinemannand remains in print as does the rest of the sequence. It takes place at a fictional 1958 symposium in Venice.

Temporary Kingshas been characterized as a novel in the post-war consensus of literary compromise.It also demonstrates Powell’s evocation of art at all levels, most notably an (imaginary) Venetian ceiling painting byGiovanni Battista Tiepolo