Mayor Andreas Translators (2 results)
More imagesRemembrance of Things Past (Complete in Two Volumes)
Proust, Marcel; C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Andreas Mayor, Translators; Joseph Wood Krutch, Introduction
Language: English
Published by Random House, Inc., New York, New York, USA, 1970
- Hardcover
Seller: Mattabesset Books, Kensington, CT, U.S.A.Mattabesset Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Fine. No Slipcase. 2nd Edition. Random House, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., circa 1970r. Second (2nd) Edition. Printing not specified. Volume One, copyright 1934; Volume Two, copyright 1970. Volume One contains the Introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch; Swann's Way; Within a Budding Grove; and The Gue…rmantes Way, all translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff. Volume Two contains Cities of the Plain; The Captive; The Sweet Cheat Gone; and The Past Recaptured, the first three of which were translated by Moncrieff, and the last one by Andreas Mayor, replacing the shorter translation by Frederick Blossom in the first edition. Both volumes are in Very Fine condition. Appears Unread. No slipcase included. No Dust Jackets (as issued). BOTH VOLUMES: The Text Blocks are clean, white, tight, straight and square, with deckled fore-edges and no markings of any kind. The Bindings are full tan cloth, color uniform throughout, with the author's initials, black, in a circle to the front board bright gilt and black titles, etc., to each spine, unmarked white endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. See the accompanying photos. VOLUME ONE: xv, 1141 pages. VOLUME TWO: 1140 pages. Each is 5 7/8" x 8 5/8". This two-volume edition is a translation from the French of A la recherche du temps perdu, a seven volume work, the individual volumes of which are entitled, Du Cote de chez Swann; A L'Ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs; Le cote de Guermantes; Sodome et Gomorrhe; La prisoniere; Albertine disparue; and Le temps retrouve. NOTE: These are heavy books and will require extra postage: $9.00 for domestic non-priority; International to be determined, as the books together weigh more than 4 lb. (2,246 grams / 79.2 ounces), and therefore are ineligible for shipment by First Class Package International Service, and would have to be shipped Priority International Service.
Rememberance Of Things Past [being] Swanns Way - Within A Budding Grove - The Guermantes Way - Cities Of The Plain - The Captive - The Sweet Cheat Gone - Time Regained [ 12 vols complete ]
Proust , Marcel - Scott Moncrieff, C K [ Charles Kenneth ] & Mayor, Andreas [translators]
- Softcover
Seller: Eastleach Books, Newbury, BER, United KingdomEastleach Books
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Condition: Poor. reprint. Paperback, P+ 12 volumes. [xii]+303pp, [vi]+288pp, [viii]+396pp, [vi]+356pp, [viii]+428pp, [vi]+395pp, [viii]+352pp, [vi]+384pp, [x]+276pp, [viii]+285pp, [vi]+380pp, xiv+474pp, the first volume is a hardback copy in a dustjacket. A reading set only, the covers are marked & a little wrinkled, bottom of t…he text blocks wrinkled as if the books once sat on a damp windowsill, A translation of A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu which Proust added to & expanded. It is a work unique in the annals of fiction - a minute & detailed re living of an era in which Proust was, before he shut himself away for 16 years to write this work, a main protagonist. Proust, detailing every facet of the period - nothing is more real than that which the self contains. 3250 grams.
