Remembrance of Things Past [À la recherche du temps perdu.]

Proust (Marcel)

Remembrance of Things Past [À la recherche du temps perdu.]

Swann's Way [2 Vols]; Within a Budding Grove [2 Vols]; The Guermantes Way [2 Vols]; Cities of the Plain [2 Vols]; The Captive; The Sweet Cheat Gone; Time Regained. Translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff [the final volume by Stephen Hudson]. [Complete in 11 Vols.]

Description: FIRST ENGLISH EDITIONS, 'Cities of the Plain' and 'Time Regained' one of 2,200 and 1,250 numbered copies respectively, very occasional and faint spots to a couple of volumes, largely restricted to either end of textblock, pp. [x], 303; [vi], 288; [viii], 396; [vi], 356; [x], 428; [vi], 395; [viii], 352; [vi], 384; [xii], 563; [x], 380; [x], 434, crown 8vo [two volumes slightly larger, as issued], original blue cloth, backstrips lettered in gilt, a hint of fading to backstrips of some and very light rubbing to extremities, tiny penmark to backstrip of ninth volume, top edges blue, the Chatto volumes all with edges roughtrimmed, some with light spots to edges and endpapers, the first volume with prsopectus for the series laid in, very good

Publication Details: Chatto & Windus and Alfred A. Knopf, 1922- 1931

Notes: A monumental work; the task of translation of commensurate scale - neither author nor translator lived to see the publication of the complete sequence, though it was carried out by the hands of those sympathetic to their vision (Robert Proust and Sydney Schiff - as Stephen Hudson - respectively).

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Price: £9,500

Subject: Modern First Edition

Published Date: 1931

Stock Number: 71875

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