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Marcel Proust / C.K. Scott Moncrieff (transl). Remembrance of Things Past: Cities of the Plain, The Captive, Swann's Way, The Sweet Cheat Gone, Within a Budding Grove, The Guermantes Way (in 10 volumes). Chatto & Windus; Alfred A. Knopf, 1922.

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Condition: Very Good

Description: Remembrance of Things Past: Cities of the Plain, The Captive, Swann's Way, The Sweet Cheat Gone, Within a Budding Grove, The Guermantes Way (in 10 volumes). Cities of the Plain - Vol I & II - Alfred A. Knopf, 1929 first limited edition of 2230 sets, vol I numbered 549; The Sweet Cheat Gone - Alfred A. Knopf, 1930 first edition; The Captive - Alfred A Knopf, 1929 first edition; The Guermantes Way I & II- Chatto & Windus, 1925 first edition; Swann's Way I & II - Chatto & Windus, 1922 first edition; Within a Buddy Grove I & II - Chatto & Windus, 1924 first edition second impression. An almost complete Moncrieff set lacking Time Regained of first editions translated by Moncrieff in Proust's masterpiece: Remembrance of Time. Books in good condition, minor darkening and soiling of Swann's way. A highly collectible set

Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands

Proust, Marcel.. Remembrance of Things Past. 11 volumes. Translated by C. K. Scott Moncriefe.. Chatto & Windus/Alfred A. Knopf. London., 1922.

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Condition: Good

Description: The 11 volumes in this set are all bound in blue cloth with gilt letters on the spine. The condition of all 11 is G/VG, no major defects. The books are as follows: Part One, "Swann's Way", Volumes one & two, London, Chatto & Windus, 1922, First Printings,both volumes G+; Part Two, "Within A Budding Grove", Volumes one & two, London, Chatto & Windus, 1924, both volumes 2nd impressions, VG.; Part Three, "The Guemantes Way,", Volume one, London, Chatto & Windus, 1925, First Printing, VG; Part Four, "The Guermantes Way", Volume two, London, Chatto & Windus, 1925, First printing, VG.; Part Five, "Cities of the Plain" Volumes one & two, London, Alfred A. Knopf, 1929, First editions, number 941 of an edition of 2,200, both volumes VG; Part Six, "The Captive", London, Alfred A. Knopf, 1929, First Printing, G+; Part Seven, "The Sweet Cheat Gone", London, Alfred A. Knopf, 1930, First Printing, VG: & Part Eight, "Time Regained", London, Chatto & Windus, 1931. First Printing, VG. Nine volumes are First Printing & 2 volumes are second printings. Very nice, complete set.

Seller: Richard Peterson-Bookseller, Kingston, ON, Canada

PROUST, Marcel. REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST. Comprising Swann's Way; Within A Budding Grove; The Guermantes Way; Cities of the Plain; The Captive, The Sweet Cheat Gone; Time Regained. London: Chatto and Windus; Alfred A. Knopf. -1931, 1922.

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Description: First English language editions, first printing. Seven works in eleven volumes. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spines, the last volume in the original dustwrapper. Top edge blue (except The Captive). A very good set. Swann's Way, in two volumes (1922), the spines darkened and with small nicks at the head and tail. The contents, toned and with a small gift inscription at the head of each front endpaper, a couple of nicks to the fore-edge of then endpaper of volume II, are otherwise clean throughout. Within A Budding Grove, in two volumes (1924), the spines a touch darkened and bumping at the head and tail. The contents, toned but clean throughout. The Guermantes Way, in two volumes (1925), the spine of volume II a little darkened and with a previous owner's name to the front pastedown. Both volumes are spotted to the endpapers but otherwise clean throughout. Cities of the Plain, in two volumes (1929) are near fine, the bindings clean and bright with just minor bumping at the spine tips and remnants of the original glassine dustwrappers. The contents are clean and bright throughout. Housed in the original worn card slipcase. The Captive (1929), the binding square and firm, the cloth bright with a few light marks to the upper board. The contents, with previous owner's signatures to the front endpaper and mild foxing of the prelims, are otherwise clean throughout. The Sweet Cheat Gone (1930), the binding square and firm, the cloth a little marked at the bottom edge of the upper board and a touch darkened to the spine. The contents, a little spotted to the prelims are otherwise clean throughout. Time Regained (1931) is a near fine copy, the binding square and tight, the cloth and gilt bright. The contents, with some offsetting to the endpapers are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the very good, rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has small chips to the spine tips and fold corners, and a closed tear to the upper edge of the rear spine fold. The spine a touch darkened. Uncommon as a complete set of first printings of the first English language edition. Translated from the French by C. K. Scott Moncrieff, with the exception of the final volume which, following the death of Moncrieff, was translated by Sydney Schiff (under the pseudonym Stephen Hudson). Proust's 'À la recherche du temps perdu' was first published in France between 1913 and 1927. It is universally acclaimed as among the most influential works of modern fiction. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom

Proust (Marcel). Remembrance of Things Past [À la recherche du temps perdu.] 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. Translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff [the final volume by Stephen Hudson]. [Complete in 11 Vols.]. Chatto & Windus and Alfred A. Knopf - 1931, 1922.

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Description: FIRST ENGLISH EDITIONS, 'Cities of the Plain' and 'Time Regained' one of 2,200 and 1,250 numbered copies respectively, very occasional and faint spots to a couple of volumes, largely restricted to either end of textblock, pp. [x], 303; [vi], 288; [viii], 396; [vi], 356; [x], 428; [vi], 395; [viii], 352; [vi], 384; [xii], 563; [x], 380; [x], 434, crown 8vo [two volumes slightly larger, as issued], original blue cloth, backstrips lettered in gilt, a hint of fading to backstrips of some and very light rubbing to extremities, tiny penmark to backstrip of ninth volume, top edges blue, the Chatto volumes all with edges roughtrimmed, some with light spots to edges and endpapers, the first volume with prsopectus for the series laid in, very good. A monumental work; the task of translation of commensurate scale - neither author nor translator lived to see the publication of the complete sequence, though it was carried out by the hands of those sympathetic to their vision (Robert Proust and Sydney Schiff - as Stephen Hudson - respectively).

Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom

Proust, Marcel [Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff]. Remembrance of Things Past [A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu, In Search of Lost Time]: Swann's Way; Within a Budding Grove; The Guermantes Way; Cities of the Plain; The Captive; The Sweet Cheat Gone; Time Regained.. Chatto & Windus, Alfred A. Knopf, London, 1922.

Price: US$12500.00 + shipping

Description: Complete first edition set of Proust's most well-known work. Octavo, 11 volumes, original blue cloth with titles to the spine in in gilt. In near fine condition, with Time Regained in the rare dust jacket. Translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff. An excellent set, rare in this condition. Marcel Proust was best known for his 3200 page masterpiece, A La Recherche du Temps Perdu. First translated into English by C.K. Scott Moncrieff as 'Remembrance of Things Past', it was 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'. The first volume was published in 1913. Gradually withdrawing from society, Proust worked during the nights and slept during the day until his death in 1922 at the age of 51. Graham Greene named Proust, "the greatest novelist of the 20th century."

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

PROUST, Marcel.. Remembrance of Things Past. [Swann's Way; Within a Budding Grove; The Guermantes Way; Cities of the Plain; The Captive; The Sweet Cheat Gone; Time Regained.] Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff / Stephen Hudson.. London: Chatto & Windus/Alfred A. Knopf, 1922-31, 1922.

Price: US$25990.92 + shipping

Description: First editions in English, first impressions, of Proust's complete roman a fleuve, a truly rare set with all copies in dust jacket (saving Cities of the Plain which was not issued in jacket but only in slipcase, here also present). This set was assembled by Sir Geoffrey Keynes, with his ownership inscriptions in several volumes. Complete sets in first impressions are scarce, but dust jackets, especially for the early volumes, are truly rare. Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu was first published in France from 1913 and 1927. It is universally acclaimed as among the most influential works of modern fiction. Proust read and appreciated Scott-Moncrieff's translation, writing to him on 10 October 1922, after the release of Swann's Way, to compliment his "fine talent". Moncrieff's translation was published episodically: Swann's Way (2 vols., 1922), Within a Budding Grove (2 vols., 1924), The Guermantes Way (2 vols., 1925), Cities of the Plain (2 vols., 1929), The Captive (1929), and The Sweet Cheat Gone (1930). The final volume of the sequence, Time Regained (1931), was translated by Scott Moncrieff's friend Sydney Schiff after his death, under the pseudonym Stephen Hudson. The publisher Alfred A. Knopf, attempting to break into the English market, published Cities of the Plain, The Captive and The Sweet Cheat Gone under his own London imprint (though uniform with the Chatto & Windus volumes). The final volume, Time Regained, was published by Chatto and Windus. The first Knopf title, The Cities of the Plain, was limited to 2,230 copies and issued in a slipcase (here number 973). The final Chatto and Windus title, Time Regained, was limited to 1,300 copies (here number 497). Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes (1887-1982) was an author, bibliographer, surgeon and brother of the economist John Maynard Keynes. Knighted, in 1955, for services to medicine he was influential in breast cancer surgery and also blood transfusion. He published widely on William Blake, but also wrote bibliographies of Siegfried Sassoon, John Donne and Jane Austen. 7 works in 11 volumes, octavo. Original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, with dust jackets to works 1-3 and 4-7, and slipcase to work 4. Generally very good condition, with a few small chips or nicks to jacket extremities and mild toning to spine panels, crude tape repairs to versos generally, larger chip with some loss at foot of Time Regained, and at head of The Sweet Cheat Gone, both Within a Budding Grove volumes rather worse for wear with loss along joints, Swann's Way vol. 2 very presentable though with smaller chips and loss and tape repair to verso, Swann's Way vol. 1 much restored with residual tape marks, lower half of spine panel, lower half of rear panel, and the rear flap, restored in facsimile. Even with these faults, still an exceptional set given the rarity of the jackets.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

PROUST, Marcel. REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST Comprising Swann's Way; Within A Budding Grove; The Guermantes Way; Cities of the Plain; The Captive, The Sweet Cheat Gone; Time Regained. London: Chatto & Windus / Knopf -1931, 1922.

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Description: Seven works in eleven volumes, all first English language editions. Each volume in original blue cloth lettered in gilt, in original cream printed dustwrappers, apart from Cities of the Plain which is in its original slipcase, having not been issued in dustwrappers. Cities of the Plain is number 1943 of 2230 sets. Time Regained is one of 100 not for sale copies (from a total edition of 1350) and is inscribed at length by the books' translator, Sidney Schiff, to the noted French literary critic Ramon Fernandez. A fine set in very good to near fine dustwrappers, spines slightly tanned with light wear or the occasional small chip to the spine ends or corners, but all entirely unrestored. A truly exceptional set and very rare in such a complete state. A superb set of the English translation of Proust's magnum opus, A La Recherche du Temps Perdu, widely regarded as the twentieth century's most influential, even definitive, novel. It was written as and is contrived to be read as a single novel, yet is made up of seven self-contained works. Proust began working in earnest on the work in 1909 completing most of it in outline before the publication of the first instalment in 1913. By the time of his death from pneumonia in 1922, he had fully completed all but a few passages of the work and the episodes continued appearing, to ever greater acclaim, until their conclusion in 1927. The novel's fame and influence in England is mainly due to the translation made by Charles Scott Moncrieff, the first volume being issued a few months before Proust's death in 1922 and continuing until Moncrieff's own death in 1930, by which time he was part way through translating the final volume, which was completed by Syndey Schiff under the pseudonym, Stephen Hudson. Moncrieff's choice of series title, rather than the more literal "In Search of Lost Time" which the novel is now often referred to as, was taken from the second line of Shakespeare's Sonnet no. 30. The work's influence on modernism and the development of the novel is hard to overstate: many techniques which were to become a staple of the twentieth century, such as the extensive use of the interior monologue or the stream of consciousness style have their origins in this work. Between approximately 1000 and 2500 copies of each of the volumes of the translation were issued, making complete sets uncommon and almost inevitably found without dustwrappers. Sets in dustwrappers, particularly unrestored and so well preserved are very rare indeed.

Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom