A la recherche du temps perdu

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.