![]() ![]() The first Knopf title, The Cities of the Plain, was limited to 2,230 copies and issued in a slipcase (here number 973). The final volume, Time Regained, was published by Chatto and Windus. Knopf, attempting to break into the English market, published Cities of the Plain, The Captive and The Sweet Cheat Gone under his own London imprint (though uniform with the Chatto & Windus volumes). ![]() The final volume of the sequence, Time Regained (1931), was translated by Scott Moncrieff's friend Sydney Schiff after his death, under the pseudonym Stephen Hudson. Moncrieff's translation was published episodically: Swann's Way (2 vols., 1922), Within a Budding Grove (2 vols., 1924), The Guermantes Way (2 vols., 1925), Cities of the Plain (2 vols., 1929), The Captive (1929), and The Sweet Cheat Gone (1930). ![]() Proust read and appreciated Scott-Moncrieff's translation, writing to him on 10 October 1922, after the release of Swann's Way, to compliment his "fine talent". It is universally acclaimed as among the most influential works of modern fiction. Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu was first published in France from 19. Complete sets in first impressions are scarce, but dust jackets, especially for the early volumes, are truly rare. This set was assembled by Sir Geoffrey Keynes, with his ownership inscriptions in several volumes. First editions in English, first impressions, of Proust's complete roman a fleuve, a truly rare set with all copies in dust jacket (saving Cities of the Plain which was not issued in jacket but only in slipcase, here also present). ![]()
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