Marcel Proust

By Way of Sainte-Beuve

Chatto & Windus, 1958. 8vo, red buckram cloth, gilt titles, 320pp. First edition. Price clipped dust jacket with chipping, closed tears to lower edge of front panel, closed tear at front flap, moderate toning and rubbing to panels. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The complete text of Proust’s 1908 essay for Le Figaro attacking the art critic and philosopher Saint-Beueve, together with miscellaneous uncollected essays and portraits of painters and writers. Translated from the French by Sylvia Townsend Warner. A very good copy in mylar.

Price: $50.00