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1949rif. 11867London: Chatto & Windus 1949. Reprints. Cloth. Very Good in Wraps. Reprints. Cloth. Translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff. Signed by Oliver Sacks on front flyleaf. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Toning sunning chipping tears and loss to several djs shelfwear else good well worn set. Small 8vo. Blue cloth. Volume 7 lacking dustjacket. Missing volumes 1-2. Signed by former owner. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1900rif. 1416639Paris: Ludovic Baschet Editeur c1900. Hardcover. Quarto 1 184 pages. In Good minus condition. Faded brownish gray spine with gilt lettering. Fully bound in publisher's cloth faded from original olive green color with gilt lettering and ornamentation. Boards show moderate shelf wear with rubbing and abrasions along all edges bumping to corners Scratches and abrasions to cloth with sunning and loss of original green color. Spine shows mild rubbing and wear along joints. Text block shows mild age toning to interior moderate toning to page edges with a few pages chipped. Scattered mild to moderate throughout interior. Bookbinder's tape to gutters of numerous pages. Text in French. Shelved in Room X Glass Case 2. 1416639. Special Collections - Downstairs. Ludovic Baschet, Editeur hardcover books
1930rif. 13287New York: Albert & Charles Boni 1930. First American Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. First American edition of The Sweet Cheat Gone by Marcel Proust. Octavo 379pp. Patterned boards beige cloth spine title in gilt on black paper label affixed to spine. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text block dust remnants to top edge rubbing to label on spine. A near fine example. In the publisher's first state dust jacket $3.00 retail price on front flap transference to verso light wear along edges small tear to front panel. A bright gilt frosted jacket. Albert & Charles Boni hardcover books
2004rif. 2319408New York: Viking 2004. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. 6x1x9. First edition. Remainder mark stains on page base. 2004 Hard Cover. xvi 619 pp. A new translation of the esteemed twentieth-century French writer's work on fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century takes readers into the vivid and shallow sides of the period's literary and aristocratic salons where a young man is initiated into the insidious ways of the world. Viking hardcover books
1969rif. 550239Paris: Le Livre Contemporain / Les Bibliophiles Franco-Suisses 1969. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Illustrated with engravings by Pierre Lesieur. Quarto. 82 2 pp. Text in French. Paper chemise with cover engraving and unbound bifoliums laid in as issued. Fine in irregularly sunned clamshell case with short splits at the spine ends. Briefly Inscribed by the illustrator on a front blank. Published in an edition of 180 copies this is copy XXV of 30 copies in roman numerals issued “pour les collaboratuers et le dépôt legal.” A beautifully produced edition of Proust's meditation on the delights of reading first published in slightly different form as an introduction to his French translation of his early idol John Ruskin's collection of essays Sesame and Lilies. Le Livre Contemporain / Les Bibliophiles Franco-Suisses unknown books
1933rif. 2346841New York: The Modern Library 1933. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 9x6x1. First Modern Library edition Toledano 213.1 binding 7 orange Rockwell Kent endpapers. Lacks jacket. Spine and edges toned ink name on front endpaper. 1933 Hard Cover. 428 395 pp. The third of seven parts of Proust's magnum opus The Remembrance of Things Past also translated as In Search of Lost Time. The esteemed twentieth-century French writer's work on fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century takes readers into the vivid and shallow sides of the period's literary and aristocratic salons where a young man is initiated into the insidious ways of the world. The Modern Library hardcover books
1970rif. 104340New York: Random House. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1970. First American Edition. Cloth. Fine copy in price clipped jacket; is a novel about a man who is forced to revisit memories from his past. He is unable to forget the events that occurred and as a result he is constantly plagued by pain and sadness.; 8vo; $6.00 . Random House hardcover books
1914rif. 68610Paris: Bernard Grasset 1914. A La Recherche du Temps Perdu. Paris: Bernard Grasset 1914 i.e. 1913; Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française 1918-1927. A complete set of first editions. First issue of Du Cots de Chez Swann with the date 1913 on the front wrapper and 1914 on the title-page printer's imprint dated "le huit novembre mil neuf cent treize" on the verso of p. 523 and with 8 pp. of ads at the end. With the printer's misprint on the title-page and no table of contents. 4 523 1 printer's imprint 8 ads pp. Swann's Way. Together thirteen octavo volumes. Original glassine on all volumes. All volumes numbered on except for A l'Ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs as there was no numbered print for this volume. "A l'ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs" is first edition on regular paper after 64 large paper copies; all other volumes are in numbered first edition bearing the indication "Edition originale" on the cover. The set comprises: Du Cote de Chez Swann; A l'Ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs; Le Cote de Guermantes I one of 800 numbered copies for the Amis de L' Edition Originale #760; Le Cote de Guermantes II and Sodome et Gomorrhe I one of 800 numbered copies for the Amis de L'Edition Originale #168; Sodome et Gomorrhe II three volumes one of 30 numbered copies for the Exemplaires D'Auteur Hors Commerce Marques For the author not for sale all three numbered 855; La Prisonniere two volumes one of 875 numbered copies for the Amis de L'Edition Originale both volumes nymbered 293; Albertine Disparue two volumes one of 1200 numbered copies for the Amis de L'Edition Originale Both volumes numbered 346; and Le Temps Retrouve two volumes one of 1200 numbered copies for the Amis de L'Edition Originale both volumes numbered 845. Original buff wrappers printed in red and black. Du Cote de Chez Swann in yellow wrappers printed in black. Volume I of Sodome et Gomorrhe II with previous owner's ink notes on front blank ink bleeding a bit onto the half-title. Overall fine copies of all volumes. Each volume individually housed in chemises with red morocco spines over gray paper boards and black paper slipcases with red morocco edges. "Du cote de chez Swann is the first volume of Proust's monumental opus A la recherche du temps perdu the most important French novel of the twentieth century and a masterpiece of European literature. This first volume described the narrator's childhood and contains the celebrated madeleine episode. Publication of subsequent volumes was interrupted by the war. This novel famously turned by Gide for the N.R.F was published at the author's expense by Grasset. By 1918 the N.R.F had realised its huge blunder and published A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs which won the Prix Goncourt and established Proust as a major literature figure" From Stendhal to Rene Char: Le Cabinet de livres de Renaud Gillet Sotheby's 27 October 1999 lot 64. "Translated by Scott Moncreiff as Swann's Way etc. Proust's great novel A la recherche du temps perdu is something that happens once in a hundred years like Les Fleurs du Mal or War and Peace. He combined tragic poetical insight with the gift of creating comic characters in the round like Shakespeare. He is consistently both intelligent and poetic. Bergsonian philosophy of time gives depth Ruskinian aesthetics texture. Embittered by his homosexual bias and disabling asthma he shows some deterioration in the unrevised volumes though not enough to upset this magisterially executed conception of a master-mind in which art erects its monument to dead loves using for material only thought and the passage of time. 'It appeals to our sense of wonder and gains our hommage by its veiled greatness. I don't think there ever has been in the whole of literature such an example of the power of analysis' Conrad" Connolly The Modern Movement. BN Proust 402 445 484 489 531 533 and 536. Connolly The Modern Movement 23. HBS 68610. $35000. Bernard Grasset unknown books
1927rif. 140949507Paris: Bernard Grasset Nouvelle Revue Francaise 1927. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing of each of seven books in 13 volumes complete. Text in French. First volume bound in publisher Grasset's yellow wraps lettered in black; subsequent volumes bound in publisher NRF's cream wraps stamped in black and red. Near Fine with with light wear and soiling and light to moderate toning to covers minimal creasing to spines. Light foxing to textblock edges of La Prisonniere and Le Cote de Guermantes I; more pronounced foxing impinging slightly on margins and covers to both volumes of Sodome et Gomorrhe II. Some pages unopened copy number slips from 2 volumes laid in with consequent offsetting. Pencil inscription to half-title of Du cote de chez Swann Swann's Way narrow dampstaining to lower margin of first 60 pages. An uncommon assemblage of the first appearances of Marcel Proust's seven-part novel published in 13 volumes over 14 years. Proust struggled to get editors to accept the first part of his manuscript and arranged with publisher Bernard Grasset to cover the cost of printing Swann's Way himself. The book was a critical success but the next installment was stalled by the onset of the Great War. Grasset was called up and the lead of his printing press was melted down for ordnance. The publisher Gaston Gallimard had finagled his way out of military service and offered to publish the remainder of Proust's novel under his imprint NRF which had rejected Swann's Way a few years previously. That remainder grew and grew and Proust died before his novel was completed. After he succumbed to an illness in 1922 his final three books were published under the aegis of his brother and editor. The publication history of this sprawling masterpiece can be read in these first printings the paper quality of which improved with time as the author's stature grew and France emerged from wartime rationing. Key colophon information as follows: Du cote de chez Swann: November 8 1913 A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs: November 30 1918 Le Cote de Guermantes I: August 17 1920; copy #434 Le Cote de Guermantes II & Sodome et Gomorrhe I: April 30 1921; copy #883 Sodome et Gomorrhe II 1: April 3 1922; copy #104 Sodome et Gomorrhe II 2: April 3 1922; copy #639 Sodome et Gomorrhe II 3: April 3 1922; copy #104 La Prisonniere 1: November 14 1923; copy #192 La Prisonniere 2: November 14 1923; copy #37 Albertine disparue 1: November 30 1925; copy #68 Albertine disparue 2: November 30 1925; copy #64 Le temps retrouve 1: September 22 1927; copy #979 Le temps retrouve 2: September 22 1927; copy #979 A beautiful set of first printings in much better condition than commonly found. Bernard Grasset, Nouvelle Revue Francaise unknown books
1976rif. 315Paris: A. G. Nizet 1976. Wraps. Good. 189 p. Stiff wraps tail bumped. A. G. Nizet paperback books
1975rif. 169Paris: Nizet 1975. Wraps. Very Good. 285 p. Stiff wraps unopened. Nizet paperback books
1927rif. 1415Prague Praha: Odeon 1927. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. The Czech translation of Proust's masterpiece complete in original wrappers with book design by Karel Teige. With simple designs distinctive topography and titles printed in red and black Teige's edition of Proust is a quintessential example of his work and a classic representation of the Czech avant-garde. Praha Prague: Odeon 1927-1930. Complete in 15 volumes with the supplement Benjamin Cremieux Marcel Proust 1928. Octavo original wrappers in various colors. Owner signatures. General minor wear to wrappers fading to spines. First title page neatly detached. A monument of book design; rare in original wrappers. Odeon unknown books
1907rif. 1240261907. Paris: after October 7 1907. 3 pp. sm. 8vo 4 1/2 x 7 ins. Written in ink slightly faded on paper watermarked "AU PRINTEMPS PARIS NOUVEAU PAPIER FRANCAIS". § A fine personal letter written by Proust to Marie-Marguerite Catusse née Bertin his mother's dearest friend and his own close friend and confidante especially after his mother's death. In the letter he describes reading about a recent duel in which a witness was named as M. Catusse and which he briefly and wrongly supposed to be her son Charles Catusse. Later in the letter he makes a wonderfully coy reference to Lucien Daudet: "J'ai recu directement des lettres très nobles d'un sentiment très élevé d'une extreme intelligence de Lucien Daudet. Je vous assure qu'il n'est pas du tout comme vous croyez." A certain piquancy is added to the letter when it is remembered that ten years earlier in 1897 Proust had himself fought a duel with writer Jean Lorrain after Lorrain publicly questioned the nature of Proust's relationship with Lucien Daudet. "Monomotopa" and the verse quoted are from a fable of La Fontaine. The letter was recorded by Philip Kolb in his Correspondance de Marcel Proust Vol. VII 1907 p. 291 Plon 1981: n. 163 à Mme Catusse. --- The letter reads in full: Chère Madame Tout simplement j'avais lu dans un journal qu'un M. Catusse que j'ai supposé être Charles avait été témoin d'un duel entre deux jeunes gens. Sachant que dans ce cas les mères s'alarment facilement et craignent que de témoin on ne risque de passer à celui de combattant je m'étais levé comme l'ami de Monomotapa dans La Fontaine et j'avais couru. "J'ai craint qu'il ne fût vrai je suis vite accouru. Ce maudit songe en est la cause. » Votre respectueux ami Marcel. Je n'ai jamais reçu la carte dont vous me parlez et la regrette bien. J'ai reçu directement des lettres très nobles d'un sentiment très élevé d'une extrême intelligence de Lucien Daudet. Je vous assure qu'il n'est pas du tout comme vous croyez. -----. unknown books
1980rif. 21252New York: Random House 1980. First Edition of this translation. Cloth. Slipcase. Near Fine. A handsome copy of a handsome edition of the entirety of Proust's masterpiece -- all six novels contained in three thick volumes and these housed in a slipcase. 8vo. 21 by 14 cm. The three volumes are completely clean and tight with the only issue some light soiling on their spines. One edge to slipcase repaired. Random House unknown books
1971rif. 623435Paris: Institut De France/Musee Jacquemart-Andre 1971. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Preface by Julien Cain. Text in French. Illustrated from photographs. Pictorial wrappers. 84pp. Gutter cracked after page 14 spine creased and lightly sunned else a very good copy. Laid-in is a slip from rare bookseller Pierre Berès. Issued on the Centennial of his birth. Institut De France/Musee Jacquemart-Andre unknown books
1956rif. 215866MA: Houghton 1956. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in an about Very good dust jacket. Dustwrapper rubbed with minor tearing wear. Houghton hardcover books
1970rif. 151917New York: Vintage 1970. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good in wrappers a paperback. Pages inside cover slightly brown. Corners slightly rubbed. Vintage unknown books
1913rif. 214169Paris France: H. Laurens 1913. Softcover. Reading copy only - poor condition. Gray wraps with blue and red text. 182 pp. 38 bw plates on 19 leaves. Text in French. Illustrated book of 39 off-text plates. H. Laurens paperback books
1954rif. 195284New York: The Heritage Press 1954. Hardcover. VG/VG light wear to cloth edges & corners; spine ends crinkled. slipcase scuffed scratched & rubbed. grey & white patterned cloth w/ black spine printing. 441 pgs w/ color illustrations. speckled edges. black paper slipcase. A nice bright and sharp copy; appears to be a lightly handled and read. Includes publisher's newsletter/introduction 'Sandglass.' Lovely color illustrations by Bernard Lamotte. The Heritage Press hardcover books
1924rif. 128076New York: Thomas Seltzer 1924. Hardcover. VG- Part of dj describing book pasted onto rfep. Some signatures and foxing on front endpapers a very few markings in the book pages age-darkening. Text block partially uncut. Rebacked quarter-bound - green paper boards/tan cloth spine 152 pp.; unillustrated. Thomas Seltzer hardcover books
1898rif. 122843Paris and New York: Goupil & Cie / Jean Bousaod Manzi Joyant & Cie 1898. Hardbound. VG bright and crisp. Red cloth with gilt title and design on spine and cover. 102 pp 101 plates. Text is in English. 93 paintings and 8 sculptures are illustrated. Vellum edition. Color frontispiece. Goupil & Cie / Jean Bousaod, Manzi, Joyant & Cie hardcover books
1956rif. 335212New York: Simon & Schuster 1956. First. hardcover. very good. 744 pages. Thick 8vo red cloth. New York: Simon & Schuster 1956. First printing. A very good copy lacking the dust wrapper. Translated by Gerard Hopkins. Simon & Schuster unknown books
2004rif. 585619New York: Viking 2004. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. A new translation by James Grieve. Thick octavo. xviii 558pp. Edges of boards lightly sunned near fine in a near fine dust jacket with thin internal stain on top and bottom edges on front panel. Viking hardcover books
1912rif. 1408983Valencia: Pubul y Morales 1912. First Spanish Edition. Hardcover. Octavo four volumes. In Good plus condition. Quarter-bound in red leather with red paper boards. Paneled spines with gilt ornamentation and titling. Boards have chipping to extremities stains to some surfaces and bumping to corners. Volume 3 has denting to fore edges. Textblocks have foxing light age toning and soiling throughout. Shelved in Room A. 1408983. Special Collections. Pubul y Morales hardcover books
1877rif. 1409029Paris: G. Masson 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 4 viii 840 pages plus 6 leaves of engraved maps. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in maroon leather quarter binding with marbled paper boards; spine paneled with gilt titling. Moderate shelf wear to boards with rubbing along all edges. Text block shows age toning soiling and light wear along edges. Foxing throughout generally light and heavier toward endpapers. Faint contemporary ink ownership inscription on half title page. Shelved in Room A. 1409029. Special Collections. G. Masson hardcover books