Editions Lemarget|Paris 1930|14.50 x 20.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 270 numbered copies on Rives laid paper, the only deluxe copies after 15 Japan and 20 Holland. Work illustrated with an original frontispiece and headpiece by Marcel Vertès. Signed autograph inscription to de Rocquigny. A small tear at foot of slightly sunned spine.
Grasset • Nrf|Paris 1913-1927|12 x 19 cm|13 volumes brochés
A la recherche du temps perdu [In Search of Lost Time] Grasset & Nrf | Paris 1913-1927 | 12 x 19 cm for the first volume & 13 x 19.5 cm for the second & 14.5 x 19.5 cm for the following ones | 13 volumes in original wrappers First edition for all the volumes. Du côté de chez Swann, first printing on ordinary paper with all the characteristics (fault to Grasset, upper cover dated 1913, no contents table, publisher's catalogue at end); à l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, first printing on ordinary paper without false statement; the other volumes, numbered on pur fil paper, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies, after the reimposed one. The volume IV enriched with a handsome autograph inscription from Marcel Proust on endpaper: «à Monsieur Jacques Boulenger, hommage de son admirateur qui a la joie de le connaître très très bien et de son ami qui a le chagrin de ne pas le connaître encore.» «To Monsieur Jacques Boulenger, best wishes from an admirer who has the joy of knowing him very, very well and a friend who is sad not to know him yet.» Some small repairs to spine and wrappers of first volume, some spines slightly faded or sunned, slight foxing, to some leaves and edges. This complete collection of In Search of Lost Time comprises the following titles in French : Swann's Way, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, The Guermantes Way (2 vols), Sodom and Gomorrah (3 vols), The Prisoner (2 vols), The Fugitive (2 vols), and Time Regained (2 vols). A very good and rare set of à la recherche du temps perdu, an unsophisticated copy enriched with a handsome autograph inscription from Marcel Proust.
First edition, one of 75 numbered copies on Hollande, tirage de tête after 10 Chine and 30 Japon. Small trace of sunning, not serious, to head of spine, endpaper and some edges slightly sunned to head and foot. Good copy with edges preserved.
First edition, one of 300 numbered copies on alfa paper, an advance (service de presse) copy. Handsome autograph inscription from Irène Némirovsky to Henri Béraud. A few small spots mostly affecting the first and last leaves. Provenance : the library of Henri Béraud.