[Literature & Art] Proust, Marcel. (1871 - 1922)
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Paris: Bernard Grasset. 1914. Second Edition. 8vo. [4] + 524 + [8] pp. Toned, a few small stains, fragile original wrappers with several repairs around the edges, inscribed page cut down in size, bound in striking full yellow goatskin, with three raised bands and a stamped design of a madeleine on the front board.PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED to a friend of the author, Georges-Félix Marchand (born 1874), alumnus of the School of Oriental Languages and a diplomat: "A Monsieur Georges Félix Marchand / Affectueux souvenir / Marcel Proust " on the front free endpage. Deuxième édition, with vertical line of type between the last two letters of the publisher's imprint, and with the date "1913" on the wrappers, and 1914 on the title.
A wonderful copy of the first volume of Proust's masterpiece, a modernist classic and one of the greatest series in all of literature. (8951)
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