À la recherche du temps perdu. Du côté de chez Swann. - FIRST EDITION SIGNED

Paris: Bernard Grasset. 1914. 8vo. [4] + 524 + [8] pp. Toned, a few small stains and stray ink marks, lacking wrappers, inscribed page cut down in size, bound in striking full black goatskin, a stamped gilt design of a madeleine on the front board. First edition, first printing, with the date of 1914 printed on the title (printed 8 November, 1913), the printer's slug between the E and the T in the imprint, the editor's catalogue at the conclusion and the text with all the correct and incorrect pagination as described by Max Brun in Le Livre et l'Estampe (1966, n° 45-46, pp. 5 to 39).

PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED to a friend of the author, Maurice Darlu (1873 - 1923), financier and diplomat introduced to him by his friend Pierre Lavallée, and son of Édouard Darlu (1837-1923): " à Monsieur Maurice Darlu / Affectueux souvenir / Marcel Proust " on the front free endpage. 

A wonderful copy of the first volume of Proust's masterpiece, a modernist classic and one of the greatest series in all of literature. (8950)

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