Pleasures and Regrets
by Proust, Marcel (Preface by Anatole France. Translated by Louise Varese)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Original binding/DJ Not Price Clipped (2.75)
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About This Item
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 the precise and delicate nuances which are the very flavor of Proust's genius.". First Edition in English. Hardcover. Original binding/DJ Not Price Clipped (2.75). Illus. by Jonas (jacket art). 8vo. (ix), 221pp.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001432
- Title
- Pleasures and Regrets
- Author
- Proust, Marcel (Preface by Anatole France. Translated by Louise Varese)
- Illustrator
- Jonas (jacket art)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Original binding
- Jacket Condition
- DJ Not Price Clipped (2.75)
- Edition
- First Edition in English
- Publisher
- Crown Publishers, A Lear Book
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Size
- 8vo. (ix), 221pp
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