PROUST, Marcel. A la Recherche du Temps Perdu, Paris: Bernard Grasset, [1913]-27. 13 volumes, 8°, original pale yellow printed wrappers, later slipcases in red half morocco. ALL FIRST EDITIONS. VOLUME I IN FIRST ISSUE, WITH THE DATE "1913" PRINTED ON THE WRAPPERS. "L'Oeuvre est une Cathédrale, un espace de transcendence dont l' éternité défie le temps" (Gilles Quinsat, En France dans le Texte 342). Volumes I and II are on regular paper; volumes III to XIII are limited editions (of various quantities) "sur papier vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre". The imprint on volume I has a tipped-on label indicating transfer of stock to "Nouvelle Revue Franaise" in 1917. (13)
PROUST, Marcel. A la Recherche du Temps Perdu, Paris: Bernard Grasset, [1913]-27. 13 volumes, 8°, original pale yellow printed wrappers, later slipcases in red half morocco. ALL FIRST EDITIONS. VOLUME I IN FIRST ISSUE, WITH THE DATE "1913" PRINTED ON THE WRAPPERS. "L'Oeuvre est une Cathédrale, un espace de transcendence dont l' éternité défie le temps" (Gilles Quinsat, En France dans le Texte 342). Volumes I and II are on regular paper; volumes III to XIII are limited editions (of various quantities) "sur papier vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre". The imprint on volume I has a tipped-on label indicating transfer of stock to "Nouvelle Revue Franaise" in 1917. (13)
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