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.
First edition, one of the service de presse copies. Precious and beautiful autograph inscription signed by Eugène Dabit to Henri Béraud: "Galtier-Boissière m'avait dit que vous aviez aimé l'Hôtel du Nord. Je vous envoie mon second livre. Comme avec le premier, vous ne sentirez que de vous, je le souhaite, aimant naturellement le monde que vous aimez..." ["Galtier-Boissière had told me that you liked l'Hôtel du Nord. I am sending you my second book. As with the first, you will feel only yourself, I hope, naturally loving the world that you love..."] Two tears at head and foot of spine, light marginal tears on the boards, some minor foxing. Provenance: from...
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.