Sodome et Gomorrhe II [A la recherche du temps perdu]

First edition, an ordinary paper copy.
The three volumes are housed in a full black morocco case, spine ruled in blind, date at foot, inside lined with khaki sheepskin, by Goy & Vilaine.

Handsome copy inscribed by Marcel Proust to Henri Massis in the first volume: 
“En témoignage de très vive sympathie Marcel Proust [a gesture of very fond affection].”

Henri Massis, an attentive reader of Proust's works, wrote two essays on the subject.
In Le Drame de Marcel Proust [The Drama of Marcel Proust], published in 1937, he took a particular interest in Sodom and Gomorrah and put forward an “audacious and almost Freudian” interpretation of Proust's relationship with sin: “alone with his fear of evil since the loss of his mother…[Proust wrote] to defy to the central idea of the work, that of decline.”
In Chroniques, Paul Morand acknowledges the importance of his study: “Barely a few weeks ago, Henri Massis published…an essay which may one day be to the work of Proust what Claudel's preface is to Rimbaud's; with the difference, at any rate, that Claudel looks on the "sinner" with less demands than love. One could really admire the Classical logic with which Henri Massis made a foray into the labyrinth of Proustian thinking; his Christian explanation of the soul of the author of Sodom and Gomorrah resembles the cathedral of Saint Thomas at Madras, isolated and out of place in the middle of the jungles of the East.”

A fine, complete, and inscribed copy of volume V of In Search of Lost Time well presented in a lovely case.