PROUST (Marcel). À la recherche du temps perdu. Paris : Bernard Grasset, 1914 [1913] ; Paris : Nouvelle Revue Française, 1918-1927. - 13 volumes in-8, half anthracite morocco with corners, gilt filets, spine decorated, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine kept (Huser). First edition of this masterly work by Marcel Proust, composed of seven titles, the last three of which were published posthumously. This copy is composed as follows: - Du côté de chez Swann. 1914. First edition . Copy with most of the first issue features, i.e., completion of printing dated November 8, 1913 on verso of page 523, cover with date 1913 and without table of contents, but the typographical error to Grasset on the title is corrected. - À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs. 1918. first edition. Copy of the ordinary edition. - Le Côté de Guermantes I. 1920. - Le Côté de Guermantes II. Sodom and Gomorrah I. 1921. - 2 volumes. Original editions. Each volume is one of 1040 copies on Lafuma-Navarre vellum paper. Some very rare scattered foxing. Without the back cover in the first volume. - Sodom and Gomorrah II. 1922. - 3 volumes. First edition. Each volume is one of 890 copies on Lafuma-Navarre vellum. A copy with several pencil corrections in the margins, mostly related to accents errors. - La Prisonnière (Sodome et Gomorrhe III). 1923. - 2 volumes. Posthumous first edition. Each volume is one of 917 copies on vellum, reserved for friends of the original edition. - Albertine disparue. 1925. - 2 volumes. Original posthumous edition. One of 1249 copies on vellum. - Le Temps retrouvé. 1927. - 2 volumes. Posthumous first edition. One of 1245 copies on vellum pur fil Lafuma-Navarre. An attractive copy, very well preserved, uniformly bound by Georges Huser.
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PROUST (Marcel).
À la recherche du temps perdu.
Paris : Bernard Grasset, 1914 [1913] ; Paris : Nouvelle Revue Française, 1918-1927. - 13 volumes in-8, half anthracite morocco with corners, gilt filets, spine decorated, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine kept (Huser).
First edition of this masterly work by Marcel Proust, composed of seven titles, the last three of which were published posthumously.
This copy is composed as follows:
- Du côté de chez Swann. 1914.
First edition
.
Copy with most of the first issue features, i.e., completion of printing dated November 8, 1913 on verso of page 523, cover with date 1913 and without table of contents, but the typographical error to Grasset on the title is corrected.
- À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs. 1918.
first edition. Copy of the ordinary edition.
- Le Côté de Guermantes I. 1920. - Le Côté de Guermantes II. Sodom and Gomorrah I. 1921. - 2 volumes.
Original editions. Each volume is one of 1040 copies on Lafuma-Navarre vellum paper.
Some very rare scattered foxing. Without the back cover in the first volume.
- Sodom and Gomorrah II. 1922. - 3 volumes.
First edition. Each volume is one of 890 copies on Lafuma-Navarre vellum.
A copy with several pencil corrections in the margins, mostly related to accents errors.
- La Prisonnière (Sodome et Gomorrhe III). 1923. - 2 volumes.
Posthumous first edition. Each volume is one of 917 copies on vellum, reserved for friends of the original edition.
- Albertine disparue. 1925. - 2 volumes.
Original posthumous edition. One of 1249 copies on vellum.
- Le Temps retrouvé. 1927. - 2 volumes.
Posthumous first edition. One of 1245 copies on vellum pur fil Lafuma-Navarre.
An attractive copy, very well preserved, uniformly bound by Georges Huser.
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