REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST (A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu / In Search of Lost Time) - A COMPLETE SET OF 11 VOLUMES: 'Swann's Way' (2 vols); 'Within a Budding Grove' (2 vols); 'The Guermantes Way' (2 vols); 'Cities of the Plain' (2 vols); 'The Captive'; 'The Sweet Cheat Gone'; 'Time Regained' + additional refernce volume: 'A Guide to Proust - Remembrance of Things Past' by Terence Kilmartin

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A complete set of eleven volumes in First UK edition, published between 1924 and 1931 - all first impressions of the first editions in English, except for the two volumes of "Swann's Way" which are fourth impressions published in August 1925. All volumes translated from the French by C. K. Scott Moncrieff except "Time Regained". The books are published either by Chatto & Windus or Alfred A Knopf. "Cities of the Plain" and "Time Regained" are limited editions. ***ALL VOLUMES - very good to near fine in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spines. Boards slightly rubbed and marked commensurate with age and handling. Head and tail of spines slightly rubbed and creased. Corners mostly sharp. Top edges of the page blocks of some volumes are stained blue by the publisher to match the boards. Internally also very good with no creases or tears to the pages. Pages clean. Spines tight. Printed on nice quality paper. ***The volumes of "Swann's Way" and "Within a Budding Grove" each have the bookplate of the Duchess of Westminster [Loelia Mary Ponsonby] - Vol. 1 of "Swann's Way" also has some details of where the books were purchased in pencil[please see scans]. ***Volume one is numbered copy 701 [numbered in volume one only, as called for] of 'two thousand tw***Each volume is a uniform size of 194mm x 138mm except "Time Regained" which is slightly taller at 212mm. ***'"In Search of Lost Time", first translated into English as "Remembrance of Things Past", and sometimes referred to in French as "La Recherche" (The Search), is a novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust. This early 20th-century work is his most prominent, known both for its length and its theme of involuntary memory. The most famous example of this is the "episode of the madeleine", which occurs early in the first volume. The novel gained fame in English translation by C. K. Scott Moncrieff as "Remembrance of Things Past", but the title "In Search of Lost Time", a literal rendering of the French, became ascendant after D. J. Enright adopted it for his revised translation published in 1992. "In Search of Lost Time" follows the narrator's recollections of childhood and experiences into adulthood in the late 19th-century and early 20th-century high-society France, while reflecting on the loss of time and lack of meaning in the world. The novel began to take shape in 1909. Proust continued to work on it until his final illness in the autumn of 1922 forced him to break off. Proust established the structure early on, but even after volumes were initially finished, he continued to add new material and edited one volume after another for publication. The last three of the seven volumes contain oversights and fragmentary or unpolished passages, as they existed only in draft form at the death of the author; the publication of these parts was overseen by his brother Robert.' (Wiki) ***Marcel Proust was best known for this 3200 page masterpiece, originally published as "A La Recherche du Temps Perdu", and first translated into English by C.K. Scott Moncrieff as "Remembrance of Things Past" - later revised in translation to "In Search of Lost Time". Semi-autobiographical, and written in a stream-of-consciousness style, W. Somerset Maugham called it "the greatest fiction to date". ***A complete set of the first edition in English of "Cities of the Plain", published in eleven volumes - all first impressions apart from "Cities of the Plain". With the additional resource volume "A Guide to Proust" in the dustwrapper. It is now extremely difficult to find a complete set of this important work. A beautiful set for the collector of the work of Marcel Proust and literary first editions. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 9002z

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