Within A Budding Grove ( 172) by Marcel Proust; C.K. Scott Moncrieff (translation) - January 1967

Modern Library, 1951. Reprint. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. A good copy in the original green cloth (some staining to cloth; no jacket; ink name). [766]pp Translation of 'A L'Ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs' (from 'A la Recherche du Temps Perdu'); originally published in this format in 1924. Translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff. Issued as Modern Library Number 172.

New York: The Modern Library, 1951. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. 1951-63 printing of Toledano 172.1, binding style 8, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Lacks jacket. Spine and pages lightly toned, metallic sticker adhered to front paste-down endpaper. 356, [2] pp. "First published in 1919, Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann's Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swann's daughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort of Balbec with his grandmother and meets a new object of attention - Albertine, 'a girl with brilliant, laughing eyes and plump, matt cheeks.

The Modern Library, 1951. Gray cloth boards are rubbed and mottled. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. . Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

The Modern Library, 1930. Hardcover. Good. Volume two of 'A la recherche du temps perdu.' Red cloth with gilt titling and decoration, sunned to spine, with soiling and light shelf-wear. Binding sound. Pages lightly toned, with sparse instances of light pencil marking.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1924. Hardcover. First Edition, First Impression. 5 x 7.25in. 396pp.; 356pp. Publisher's cloth boards with gilt titling. Blue top-stain. Both volumes are in VERY GOOD condition in Near Fine dust jackets protected in removable archival covers. The books themselves show the slightest shelf rubbing of the extremities, spines lightly tanned, endpapers evenly and naturally toned, former owner name neatly on each endpaper, otherwise they remain Fine having been exceptionally well maintained. The rare dust jackets show the spines very lightly rubbed and very lightly tanned, a small spot of discoloration on the spine of Vol. 1, topmost of the spines nominally shelf rubbed, otherwise remain exceptionally bright, colorful, and distinct. As fine an example as one could hope to find. As pictured.