A Proust Souvenir
by Adams, William Howard
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 086565042X
- ISBN 13
- 9780865650428
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About This Item
New York: Vendome Press, 1985. 128 pages, portraits; 25 cm. With period photographs by Paul Nadar. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. Age toning, edges lightly soiled. "Grouped together after the part-title 'Swann's Way' are the portraits of the family members, diplomats, doctors, school friends, salonistes, and servants who made up the Right Bank bourgeois milieu into which Proust was born. Part-title 'The Guermantes Way' includes the aristocratic, Faubourg Saint-Germain world to which Proust aspired. With part-title 'The Artists' and Writers' Way' come the Bergotte of Anatole France and actresses with whom he became romatically involved. The closing section is the self-portrait of Paul Nadar, son fo Felix Nadar, the legendary avant-gardist in whose studio the Impressionists had held their first exhibition." - Publisher.. Paperback. Good. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 113649
- Title
- A Proust Souvenir
- Author
- Adams, William Howard
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 086565042X
- ISBN 13
- 9780865650428
- Publisher
- Vendome Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1985
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- European / 8. Modern, 1900-1945; European / French; Photography / Subjects & Themes / Portraits;
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