Grasset

"Monsieur et cher Confrère,
Zola me transmet votre aimable article du Fantasio. Il m'a fait le plus grand plaisir ; et je vous prie de r

First edition including all the features of the first issue for Du Côté de chez Swann (error with Grasset, first board with the date 1913, missing contents table, publisher's catalogue in-fine). First edition on ordinary paper, one of the very rare first without mention copies for A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, of which there were only around 500 copies printed. First numbered editions on pur fil, only deluxe copies after the reimposed for the following volumes.
Complete collection of In Search of Lost Time with two important and precious autograph inscriptions signed by Marcel Proust to Lucien Descaves, founding memb

New edition of the French translation, following the original 1977 edition.
Covers and edges soiled, a small tear at the foot of the spine.
Rare and precious dated and signed presentation copy from Gabriel Garcia Marquez to his friend Jean-Pierre Richard, the year of his Nobel Prize : "Para Jean-Pierre, en Mexico, el dia de la entrevista. Gabriel 82."

Writer, filmmaker, translator and critic, Jean-Pierre Richard met Garcia Marquez through Salvador Allende, whose election he attended in November 1970. He became a close friend and one of the few journalists to whom the author revealed the secrets behind the composition of his masterpiece, O