PROUST, Marcel. A la recherche du temps perdu. Paris, Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1918-1927.
13 volumes in foolscap 4to [214 x 163 mm], full brown morocco, 8 gilt fillets on the covers, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt fillets, the covers’ decoration is repeated in the panels of the spine, brown box calf doublures decorated with a frame of five blind-stamped fillets, red and gilt watered silk endleaves, gilt over untrimmed edges, original wrappers and spine bound in, case. Binding signed P.-L. Martin.
First edition, except for the first volume, Du côté de chez Swann, originally published by Grasset and the only one published by this editor, of Proust’s masterpiece.
Deluxe copy reimposed to 4to on verge Lafuma-Navarre, which number of copies printed varies from 108 to 130 as per the volumes.
–Du côté de chez Swann, 1919, copy n°112. 1 volume. –A l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, 1918, copy n°44. 1 volume. –Le Côté de Guermantes I, 1920, n°X printed for Léon Delamarche. 1 volume. –Le Côté de Guermantes II. Sodome et Gomorrhe I, 1921, copy n°X printed for Léon Delamarche. 1 volume. –Sodome et Gomorrhe II, 1922, 3 volumes, the first volume is the copy n°LVII, the following two volumes are unnumbered. –La Prisonnière, 1923, n°XCV. 2 volumes. –Albertine disparue, 1925, n°XXXI. 2 volumes. –Le temps retrouvé, 1927, n°LXXV. 2 volumes.
A rare copy on large paper, elegantly bound by Pierre-Lucien Martin.
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