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PROUST (MARCEL) A la recherche du temps perdu. Du Côté de chez Swann, FIRST IMPRESSION with misprint of publisher's name on title , AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "Hommage de Du Côté de chez Swann, avec l'espoir (et le certitude certaine) que je pourrai aller du Côté de chez Monsieur Maurice Vernes, Marcel Proust" on the front free endpaper, all but the first title Nouvelle Revue Francaise (11)
4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
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PROUST (MARCEL)
A la recherche du temps perdu. Du Côté de chez Swann, FIRST IMPRESSION with misprint of publisher's name on title , AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "Hommage de Du Côté de chez Swann, avec l'espoir (et le certitude certaine) que je pourrai aller du Côté de chez Monsieur Maurice Vernes, Marcel Proust" on the front free endpaper, upper cover (dated 1913) near detached, a few small nicks, lower part of spine with some loss (including two letters of publisher's name, Bernard Grasset, 1913 [1914]; A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, imprint date "30 Novembre 1918", label ("Majoration Temporaire Cinquante Pour Cent.") pasted on spine, 1918; Le Côté de Guermantes I, one of 800 copies "résérvés aux amis de l'édition originale", this copy number 49, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED "a Monsieur Maurice Vernes avec toute ma sympathie & le regret qu'une extrême aggravation de mon état de santé m'ait empêché de nouer avec lui d'amicales relatives Marcel Proust" on the front free endpaper, 1920; Le Côté de Guermantes II [-Sodome et Gomorrhe I], one of 30 "exemplaires d'auteur, hors commerce" copies, this copy number 822, 1921; Sodome et Gomorrhe II, 3 vol., each one of 30 "exemplaires d'auteur, hors commerce" copies, each copy numbered 859, 1922; La prisonnière, 2 vol., each copy numbered 638, 1923; Albertine disparue, 2 vol., each copy numbered 737, book block of second volume detached from wrappers, [1925], FIRST EDITIONS, all but the first 2 titles uncut, publisher's wrappers, 8vo, all but the first title Nouvelle Revue Francaise (11)
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Author's presentation copies of the first and third volumes of A la recherche du temps perdu, inscribed to the author Maurice Vernes (1889-1943).
Provenance: Property of a European collector.





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