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1914 · 68469 — A Complete Set of First Editions in Fine Condition PROUST Marcel. A La Recherche du Temps Perdu. Paris: Bernard Grasset 1914 i.e. 1913; …ditions de la Nouvelle Revue FranÃaise 1918-1927. A complete set of first editions first issues besides the first volume which is a second issue. Second issue of Du CÙtÈ de Chez Swann with the date 1913 on the front wrapper and 1914 on the title-page with the table of contents and correct date 8 November 1913 as issued and with 8 pp. of ads at the end. 8 523 1 blank 3 table of contents 1 printerís imprint 8 ads pp. Swann's Way published by Grasset and no indication of later edition on title. Together thirteen octavo volumes. All volumes numbered on "Velin pur fil" except for A líOmbre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs as there was no numbered print for this volume. Original glassine on all volumes. The set comprises: Du CÙtÈ de Chez Swann; A líOmbre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs; Le CÙtÈ de Guermantes I one of 800 numbered copies for the Amis de Lí…dition Originale #572; Le CÙtÈ de Guermantes II and Sodome et Gomorrhe I one of 800 numbered copies for the Amis de Lí…dition Originale #734; Sodome et Gomorrhe II three volumes one of 850 numbered copies for the Amis de Lí…dition Originale #568 389 568; La PrisonniËre two volumes one of 875 numbered copies for the Amis de Lí…dition Originale #252 524; Albertine Disparue two volumes one of 1200 numbered copies for the Amis de Lí…dition Originale #521 839; and Le Temps RetrouvÈ two volumes one of 1230 numbered copies where 30copies are "et trente exemplaires d'auteur hors commerce" For the author not for sale these both being #1230. Original buff wrappers printed in red and black. Du CÙtÈ de Chez Swann in yellow wrappers printed in black. Swann's way chemised and housed in a cardboard slipcase. A couple of volumes slightly sunned on spines. Sodome et Gomorrhe with some very minor foxing. All volumes in glassine. All fine copies. ìDu cÙtÈ de chez Swann is the first volume of Proustís monumental opus A la recherche du temps perdu the most important French novel of the twentieth century and a masterpiece of European literature. This first volume described the narratorís childhood and contains the celebrated madeleine episode. Publication of subsequent volumes was interrupted by the war. This novel famously turned by Gide for the N.R.F was published at the authorís expense by Grasset. By 1918 the N.R.F had realised its huge blunder and published A líombre des jeunes filles en fleurs which won the Prix Goncourt and established Proust as a major literature figureî From Stendhal to RenÈ Char: Le Cabinet de livres de Renaud Gillet Sothebyís 27 October 1999 lot 64. ìTranslated by Scott Moncreiff as Swannís Way etc. Proustís great novel A la recherche du temps perdu is something that happens once in a hundred years like Les Fleurs du Mal or War and Peace. He combined tragic poetical insight with the gift of creating comic characters in the round like Shakespeare. He is consistently both intelligent and poetic. Bergsonian philosophy of time gives depth Ruskinian aesthetics texture. Embittered by his homosexual bias and disabling asthma he shows some deterioration in the unrevised volumes though not enough to upset this magisterially executed conception of a master-mind in which art erects its monument to dead loves using for material only thought and the passage of time. ëIt appeals to our sense of wonder and gains our hommage by its veiled greatness. I donít think there ever has been in the whole of literature such an example of the power of analysisí Conradî Connolly The Modern Movement. BN Proust 402 445 484 489 531 533 and 536. Connolly The Modern Movement 23. Connolly 23. HBS 68469. $28500 Bernard Grasset unknown books