À la recherche du temps perdu. [Vols. 1-3]

Proust, Marcel (1871-1922)

1954, First Edition. [Paris] : Gallimard. Very good copies all in semi-flexible leather bindings, with good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled original dust-wrappers, showing minor loss and now mylar-sleeved. Leather covers somewhat rubbed at the corners and endbands; text edges slightly dust-toned, with interiors bright and clean. Remains a well-preserved set overall. Provenance; The set of art dealer Adrian Eeles, with his autograph to vols. 1 and 2, and his bookplate to vols. 1 and 3. Item #474204

Series; Bibliothèque de la Pléiade ; 100-102. Physical description; 3 volumes (xliv, 1008 pages ; 1224 pages ; 1321 pages) : portrait on covers ; 18 cm. Notes; Introduction by André Maurois. Edited by André Ferré and Pierre Clarac. Notes and variants at end of each volume. Index at end of volume III. Contents; Tome I: Du côté de chez Swann, À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs – Tome II: Le côté de Guermantes, Sodome et Gomorrhe – Tome III: La prisonnière, La fugitive, Le temps retrouvé. Subjects; Proust, Marcel – À la recherche du temps perdu. French fiction – 20th century. 20th century. 1950s. French language. Critical edition. Novel. Literary classic. Modernist literature.

Price: €125.00