Marcel Proust: A Biography: [ Two Volumes Set]
by Painter, George D
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394500407
- ISBN 13
- 9780394500409
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1978 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition. 8vo. Volume I. [ISBN 0394500407] xvi (iv), 351 pp, preface, 16 chapters, index. Volume II. [ISBN 0394500415] (5), 424 pp, acknowledgments, list of b&w plates, 17 chapters, bibliography for Vols. I and II, references to sources, corrections and additions, references to sources, indexes for Vol. and II. First published in England in 1959. This is the First American Edition, 1978. Price clipped. Inked name on ffep, volume I, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine..
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004409
- Title
- Marcel Proust: A Biography: [ Two Volumes Set]
- Author
- Painter, George D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394500407
- ISBN 13
- 9780394500409
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- LITERARY CRITICISM FRENCH WRITERS BIOGRAPHY PROUST MARCEL (1871-1922) NOVELISTS CRITICISM AND INTERPRETATION
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERARY CRITICISM;
- Size
- 8vo
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Price Clipped
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- Tight
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- Fine
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- FFEP
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- Marginalia
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