Casanova's Chinese Restaraunt - UK 1st

First Uk edition first impression from 1960, there is a previous owner inscription to the front blank endpage, no other internal markings, pages clean, binding firm, The jacket has chipping and wear to extremities, now in removable protective sleeve. 

Casanova's Chinese Restaurant 

is a novel by Anthony Powell . It forms the fifth volume of the twelve-volume sequence A Dance to the Music of Time, and was originally published in 1960. 

As with several of the earlier volumes, there is a time-overlap with previous books, the first part returning to the period before the death of Mr. Deacon. The ruined door of a fictional Soho pub, the Mortimer, provides the narrative frame of the volume. However, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant concentrates on a new set of characters, principally the composer Hugh Moreland, (based on Powell's close friend Constant Lambert), his fiancée Matilda, and the critic Maclintick and his wife, Audrey, whose unhappy marriage forms a key part of the narrative.

The interweaving of historical with fictional events is more notable here, and is used to illuminate the characters, as for example in Erridge's ill-considered departure for the Spanish Civil War.