Jean Santeuil
Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1955. 8vo, blue cloth, red and gilt titles, 744pp. First British Edition. Price clipped dust jacket with moderate chipping, toning and rubbing to panels. Ownership signature to front endpaper, fading and bumping to board corners. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The first English appearance of a hitherto lost and untranslated interim novel by Proust, written in the years preceding Swann’s Way. ‘It is in Jean Santeuil that we find the most complete analysis that Proust ever wrote on the subject of affective memory and the role of imagination, and much fuller expositions of his ideas about politics and the Dreyfus case.’ Translated from the French by Gerard Hopkins. A very good copy in mylar; scarce.
Price: $125.00