Les plaisirs et les jours précédé d'une préface par Anatole France; onzième èdition by Proust, Marcel, Anatole France - 1924

Dennis Dobson, 1950-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. First edition without jacket on red cloth + ex libris plate inside cover will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable

New York: Crown Publishers, A Lear Book, 1948. Near Fine condition in bright, Near Very Good Dust Jacket. Jacket has 2 short closed tears (less than 1 inch) to rear panel and light rubbing at the corners and spine ends. Not a book club edition. No remainder mark. No owner's name or bookplate. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Pages are fresh and crisp, probably never read. Publisher's brown cloth with blue lettering on the spine. Originally published as LES PLAISIRS ET LES JOURS. Translated from the French by Louise Varese. Precedes the first UK edition which did not appear until two years later, in 1950. From the Dust Jacket: "Here for the first time in English are those captivating stories with which Marcel Proust first enchanted the literary world. In it are foreshadowed all the major motifs of REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST... The translation by Louise Varese, acclaimed for her sensitive rendering of Rimbaud's SEASON IN HELL and Baudelaire's PARIS SPLEEN preserves… Read More