marcel proust edited philip kolb (6 résultats)

Hardcover w/DJ. Etat : Good+/Good. Not Illustrated (illustrateur). First Edition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Good+/Good. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. Sm 4to., 482 pp., DJ frayed, soiled, occasional foxing .

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : very good. First edition, as stated. 6 x 9 in. Black cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers like new but with some small white marks at lower edge. Binding tight and text unmarked. PO's name on front pastedown. DJ is VERY GOOD ; price-clipped, edges chipped, clean but rubbed. Letters. Stax.

Hardcover. xxv, 376p., very good first edition stated in cloth boards and slightly worn unclipped dj.

First edition, first printing Fine bright in like pictorial dust jacket with crisp bright text throughout. Gift quality.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. In this volume of Proust's collected letters--translated by Terence Kilmartin, acclaimed for his work on the Moncrieff translation of Proust's works--the reader is carried inside this pivotal moment in a great writer's life. In a letter to Louis d'Albufera he lists the projects he has in hand: "a study on the nobility, a Parisian novel, an essay on Sainte-Beuve and Flaubert, an essay on Women, an essay on Pederasty (not easy to publish), a study on stained-glass windows, a study on tombstones, a study on the novel"--all subjects that eventually found their way into Remembrance of Things Past. The final letter in the volume talks of alterations to his flat "which are essential for my peace and quiet"--an allusion no doubt to the cork-lined room in which he would spend so many years continuing to pursue his quest for "Lost Time." The letters are intriguing for what they say about the work, but they also offer an intimate portrait of the man--the sometime invlaid recluse, sometime socialite. Although Proust spent a great deal of time insulated at home, when he does go out it is clear that the talent for malicious observation so evident in Guermantes Way was already quite sharp. He refers to a group of dowagers he'd seen at a concert as "portraits of monsters from the time when people didn't know how to draw." And his letters to his devoted friend the composer Reynaldo Hahn are full of wit, scurrilous gossip and a great deal of teasing. He also carries on lively exchanges with two very different women--Marie Nordlinger, a serious, dedicated artist, and Louisa de Mornand, a frivolous, mercenary actress. His letters to Marie are affectionate, but his letters to Louisa are amorous--sometimes even salacious, (possibly because she served as a surrogate for his real interst, her lover Albufera.) Proust's celebrated devotion to his mother is also evident in this collection. Theirs is an intimate and loving correspondence, and her death in 1905 is clearly a tremendous blow ("My life has now forever lost its only purpose, its only sweetness, its only consolation.") 482 pages. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0195059611. ISBN/EAN: 9780195059618. Inventory No: 272061.

Paperback. Etat : Good. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Creasing to spine. Small tear to head of spine. Pages unmarked. xiv, 464 p., 25 cm.