PROUST, Marcel. Within a Budding Grove.

(London): Chatto & Windus, 1924. First UK edition. Octavo. Two volumes. 396 and 356 pages. Part Two (complete in two volumes) of Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past ,a masterpiece of modernity, the novel is the story of Proust’s own life, told as an allegorical search for truth. Translated from the original French by C. K. Scott Moncrieff. Both volumes in very good condition in publisher’s slate blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edges stained blue, fore- and bottom edges rough-trimmed.