PROUST (Marcel). In Search of Lost Time. - Lot 84

PROUST (Marcel). In Search of Lost Time. Paris, NRF, 1929–1936. 10 tomes in 17 in-8 volumes, paperback. First complete edition of Proust’s works, known as the “à la gerbe” edition, comprising: 1. Swann’s Way (2 vols.). 2. Within a Budding Grove (3 vols.). 3. *The Guermantes Way* (3 vols.). 4. *Sodom and Gomorrah* (2 vols.). 5. *The Captive* (2 vols.). 6. *Albertine Disappeared*. 7. *Time Regained* (1 of 2 vols.). 8. Pastiches and Miscellaneous Writings. 9. Pleasures and Days. 10. Chronicles. Includes an etched frontispiece by Hermine David, no. 104/125 Octavo edition, with a numbered print run for the first 470 copies, 60 of which are numbered in Roman numerals; this copy (no. LIV for the most part, with XXXVI, LIX, and LV) is one of 30 non-commercial copies printed on watermarked Bruges rag paper.