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7 volumes in 13, plus 3 variant or later issues. Comprises: Du Côte de Chez Swann. Wrappers dated MCMXIII; title page dated 1914; page [524] with the imprint dated "le huit novembre mil neuf treize"; [8] pp. of advertisements inserted at the end. Paris: Bernard Grasset, Editeur, 1914. * Re-issue of preceding by Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Française. [Colophon dated 14 June 1919]. * A l’Ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs. [Colophon dated 30 Nov. 1918]. * Le Côte de Guermantes I. No. 353 of 800 copies. 1920 [colophon dated 17 Aug. 1920]. * Le Côte de Guermantes II/ Sodome et Gomorrhe I. No. 488 of 800 copies numbered 1-800. 1921 [colophon dated 13 April 1921]. * Variant issue of preceding. No. 936 of 200 copies numbered 831-1030. 1921 [colophon dated 13 April 1921]. * Sodome et Gomorrhe II, part 1. No. 741 of 850 copies. 1922 [colophon dated 3 April 1922]. * Sodome et Gomorrhe II, part 2. No. 741 of 850 copies. 1922 [colophon dated 3 April 1922]. * Sodome et Gomorrhe II, part 3. No. 741 of 850 copies. 1922 [colophon dated 3 April 1922]. * Sodome et Gomorrhe II, part 3. No. 509 of 850 copies. 1922 [colophon dated 3 April 1922]. * La Prisonnière (Sodome et Gomorrhe III), Part 1. No. 169 of 875 copies. 1923 [colophon dated 14 Nov. 1923] . * La Prisonnière (Sodome et Gomorrhe III), Part 2. No. 169 of 875 copies. 1923 [colophon dated 14 Nov. 1923]. * Albertine Disparue, Part 1. No. 168 of 1200 copies. [Colophon dated 30 Nov. 1925]. * Albertine Disparue, Part 2. No. 168 of 1200 copies. [Colophon dated 30 Nov. 1925]. * Le Temps Retrouvè, part 1. No. 819 of 1200 copies. [Colophon dated 22 Sept. 1927]. * Le Temps Retrouvè, part 1. No. 819 of 1200 copies. [Colophon dated 22 Sept. 1927]. Together, 16 volumes in all. All but the first are published by Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Française. Original wrappers. First Editions except for the re-issue of the first volume.

Very rare complete set of Proust's masterwork, untrimmed and in the original wrappers, unsophisticated, unrestored copies in exceptional condition. Includes the extremely scarce first edition of the first volume, in this case the variant with the vertical bar between the E and the T in Grasset on the title-page. A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu (translated as In Search of Lost Time, also Remembrance of Things Past) is considered by many to be the greatest novel of the 20th century, and is certainly the finest piece of sustained modernist literature in the French language. The publication was interrupted by the outbreak of the first world war, and the it was not until five years after Proust's death in 1922 that the publication of the novel was completed. The second volume (A l'Ombre...) with printed paper label on spine above 5 francs price reading "Majoration temporaire cinquante pour cent."