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PROUST, Marcel (1871-1922). Du côté de chez Swann [i.e À la recherche du temps perdu I]. Paris: C. Colin for Bernard Grasset, '1914' [but 1913].
8° (184 x 116mm). (Very light browning, lacking advertisements.) 20th-century morocco-backed boards by Stroobants, spine lettered in gilt, original wrappers bound in (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Walter Van Rensselaer Berry (ownership inscription on front free endpaper)--occasional pencilled underlinings or marginal markings.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. ASSOCIATION COPY FROM THE LIBRARY OF WALTER BERRY, Proust's friend and the dedicatee of Pastiches et mélanges. Berry was the American president of the US Chamber of Commerce in Paris, and moved in the city's literary circles; amongst his intimates he numbered Harry and Caresse Crosby, and Edith Wharton, who was buried beside him at Versailles. Proust and Berry met in 1916 and the friendship was quickly cemented by Berry's gift to Proust of a copy of P. Rapin's Oeuvres from the library of Prondre de Guermantes, in an armorial binding, a gift that Proust elegantly acknowledged in a letter thus: 'Je suis persuadé que dans la complexe enchaînement des effets et des causes, le "fatum" de ce petit livre voulait que, par vous, il vînt à celui qui avait exhumé les Guermantes de leurs tombes et tenté de rallumer l'éclat du nom éteint'. The present copy is the first issue, with a vertical line between the final 2 letters of the publisher's name on the title, the date 1914 on the title and 1913 on the upper wrapper, and the colophon on 33/6v. Connolly 100 Key Books of the Modern Movement 23; En français dans le texte 342.
8° (184 x 116mm). (Very light browning, lacking advertisements.) 20th-century morocco-backed boards by Stroobants, spine lettered in gilt, original wrappers bound in (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Walter Van Rensselaer Berry (ownership inscription on front free endpaper)--occasional pencilled underlinings or marginal markings.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. ASSOCIATION COPY FROM THE LIBRARY OF WALTER BERRY, Proust's friend and the dedicatee of Pastiches et mélanges. Berry was the American president of the US Chamber of Commerce in Paris, and moved in the city's literary circles; amongst his intimates he numbered Harry and Caresse Crosby, and Edith Wharton, who was buried beside him at Versailles. Proust and Berry met in 1916 and the friendship was quickly cemented by Berry's gift to Proust of a copy of P. Rapin's Oeuvres from the library of Prondre de Guermantes, in an armorial binding, a gift that Proust elegantly acknowledged in a letter thus: 'Je suis persuadé que dans la complexe enchaînement des effets et des causes, le "fatum" de ce petit livre voulait que, par vous, il vînt à celui qui avait exhumé les Guermantes de leurs tombes et tenté de rallumer l'éclat du nom éteint'. The present copy is the first issue, with a vertical line between the final 2 letters of the publisher's name on the title, the date 1914 on the title and 1913 on the upper wrapper, and the colophon on 33/6v. Connolly 100 Key Books of the Modern Movement 23; En français dans le texte 342.
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