PROUST A la recherche du temps perdu.

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"A la recherche du temps perdu" by Marcel Proust
Copy reimposed on large paper of the first edition of the most important work of twentieth-century literature elegantly bound by Pierre-Lucien Martin. Paris, 1918-1927. En Français dans le texte, 342.

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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.

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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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