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Chatto & Windus, 1988. Third Impression . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good Plus. LONDON : 1988. [ First published thus in 1980.]. The Guermantes Way& Cities of the Plain. Volume 2 of 3. Translation of A la recherche du temps perdu. This revised trans. incorporates material from the Pleiade edition. Hardback. Blue cloth; gilt lettered spine. In blue and red printed dust-jacket. Bright, tight and clean. No owner name or internal markings. Nice bright jacket with minor wear only. FINE in VERY GOOD jacket; now in a clear protective sleeve. (viii), 1,197 pages. Addenda and Synopsis to rear. 8vo. HEAVY; extra postage needed outside the UK. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ] SCARCE.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1924. Hardcover. First Edition, First Impression. 5 x 7.25in. 396pp.; 356pp. Publisher's cloth boards with gilt titling. Blue top-stain. Both volumes are in VERY GOOD condition in Near Fine dust jackets protected in removable archival covers. The books themselves show the slightest shelf rubbing of the extremities, spines lightly tanned, endpapers evenly and naturally toned, former owner name neatly on each endpaper, otherwise they remain Fine having been exceptionally well maintained. The rare dust jackets show the spines very lightly rubbed and very lightly tanned, a small spot of discoloration on the spine of Vol. 1, topmost of the spines nominally shelf rubbed, otherwise remain exceptionally bright, colorful, and distinct. As fine an example as one could hope to find. As pictured.

London: Chatto & Windus, Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. 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.