![]() Vols 9 and 11 are first editions dated 1941 Vols 2, 3, 4 and 6 are the 1943 reprint Vol 12 is the 1944 reprint Vols 1, 5, 7, 8 and 10 are the 1949 reprint. Ownership inscriptions on front endpapers of Vols 1 and 3. NB dust jacket of Volume 1 is missing the others are complete and sound, with minor rubbing at edges, except for Volume 6 which has a few small horizontal abrasions. Jackets light blue, white and red with fleur de lis motif, designed by Enid Marx. Pale blue cloth, with titles to spine in gilt within red oval. Translation by Charles Scott Moncrieff, except for the final volume which was translated by Stephen Hudson after Moncrieff's death. A very good set of the Chatto & Windus 'Uniform edition', originally published in 1941. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Hard to find first printings of this important work. ![]() The last three of the seven volumes contain oversights and fragmentary or unpolished passages, as they existed only in draft form at the death of the author the publication of these parts was overseen by his brother Robert.' ***First impressions of the first edition in English of "Cities of the Plain", published in two volumes in a limited edition of 2,230 copies. Proust established the structure early on, but even after volumes were initially finished, he continued to add new material and edited one volume after another for publication. Proust continued to work on it until his final illness in the autumn of 1922 forced him to break off. "In Search of Lost Time" follows the narrator's recollections of childhood and experiences into adulthood in the late 19th-century and early 20th-century high-society France, while reflecting on the loss of time and lack of meaning in the world. Enright adopted it for his revised translation published in 1992. ![]() Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin as "Remembrance of Things Past", but the title "In Search of Lost Time", a literal rendering of the French, became ascendant after D. ![]() The novel gained fame in English in translations by C. The most famous example of this is the "episode of the madeleine", which occurs early in the first volume. This early 20th-century work is his most prominent, known both for its length and its theme of involuntary memory. ***'"In Search of Lost Time", first translated into English as "Remembrance of Things Past", and sometimes referred to in French as "La Recherche" (The Search), is a novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust. Internally very good with no inscriptions. Corners also slightly rubbed and creased. Head and tail and edges of spines slightly rubbed and creased. Volume two is clean and unfaded, but Volume One has a browned spine and some damp marking to the back board. Boards slightly rubbed and surface marked commensurate with age and handling. Top edges of text-blocks stained blue (by the publisher) but darkened. ***Very good in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spines. Originally published in French in 1921/2 as "Sodome et Gomorrhe Parts 1 & 2". ![]() Published simultaneously in the USA by Albert & Charles Boni, New York. Published and printed by Alfred A Knopf by Whitefriars Press, Tonbridge. Volume one is numbered copy 701 of 'two thousand two hundred and thirty sets only of this edition, of which two thousand and two hundred are numbered and for sale'. Part Five of Remembrance of Things Past: Cities of the Plain: Volume One and Volume Two: First impressions of the first editions in English, published in 1929. ![]()
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