REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST. Comprising Swann's Way; Within A Budding Grove; The Guermantes Way; Cities of the Plain; The Captive, The Sweet Cheat Gone; Time Regained

First English language editions, first printing. Seven works in eleven volumes. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spines, the last volume in the original dustwrapper. Top edge blue (except The Captive). A very good set. Swann's Way, in two volumes (1922), the spines darkened and with small nicks at the head and tail. The contents, toned and with a small gift inscription at the head of each front endpaper, a couple of nicks to the fore-edge of then endpaper of volume II, are otherwise clean throughout. Within A Budding Grove, in two volumes (1924), the spines a touch darkened and bumping at the head and tail. The contents, toned but clean throughout. The Guermantes Way, in two volumes (1925), the spine of volume II a little darkened and with a previous owner's name to the front pastedown. Both volumes are spotted to the endpapers but otherwise clean throughout. Cities of the Plain, in two volumes (1929) are near fine, the bindings clean and bright with just minor bumping at the spine tips and remnants of the original glassine dustwrappers. The contents are clean and bright throughout. Housed in the original worn card slipcase. The Captive (1929), the binding square and firm, the cloth bright with a few light marks to the upper board. The contents, with previous owner's signatures to the front endpaper and mild foxing of the prelims, are otherwise clean throughout. The Sweet Cheat Gone (1930), the binding square and firm, the cloth a little marked at the bottom edge of the upper board and a touch darkened to the spine. The contents, a little spotted to the prelims are otherwise clean throughout. Time Regained (1931) is a near fine copy, the binding square and tight, the cloth and gilt bright. The contents, with some offsetting to the endpapers are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the very good, rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has small chips to the spine tips and fold corners, and a closed tear to the upper edge of the rear spine fold. The spine a touch darkened.

Uncommon as a complete set of first printings of the first English language edition. Translated from the French by C. K. Scott Moncrieff, with the exception of the final volume which, following the death of Moncrieff, was translated by Sydney Schiff (under the pseudonym Stephen Hudson). Proust's 'À la recherche du temps perdu' was first published in France between 1913 and 1927. It is universally acclaimed as among the most influential works of modern fiction.