Proust: The Early Years by George D. Painter - 1959

Little, Brown and Company. Good in Good dust jacket. 1965. Third Printing. Hardcover. Price clipped jacket .

Boston: Atlantic Little Brown, 1959. Light soiling around page edges. Dust jacket lightly frayed around the edges.. 4th Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Chipped.

1959 hardcover stated 1st edition. Edgewear, chipping, and soil/tanning on dj, sunning on cover, front corners a little bumped, light tanning, else text clean, binding tight .

Boston, MA & Toronto, ON, Canada: Little, Brown & Company, 1965. Copyright 1965 . Soft Cover . Very Good. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. Harsh/ Finegold (Cover Design). 410 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Slightly creased and slanted spine. Stains on top edge.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1959). Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), xvii, 435 pp. Very Good, with slight sunning to edges; in a Very Good dust jacket with light edgewear. From dust jacket: “..Mr. Painter has identified all the places, people and facts, the encounters, friendships and loves in Marcel Proust’s life that went into the making of his great book and into his earlier novel, Jean Santeuil. He has succeeded in relating the man and his work as no other biographer has before him -- the man and his work and his society, for Mr. Painter’s book is both a critique of Proust and a social history of his time. This masterpiece of research is therefore a biography with all the excitement of a detective novel. We read of Proust’s split background, half Jewish, half Catholic, in the upper bourgeoisie; of his tender, complicated relationship with his mother; of his schoolboy essays, his early symptoms of asthma, the scenes in the salons where he is “cultivated.” Mr. Painter… Read More

UsedGood. 1965 1st U.S. hardcover ed (Later Years ONLY! Early Years NOT included). Noticeably worn/scuffed dj/bind. Text is mostly clean & readable.

Boston: Little Brown, 1959. hardcover. very good/very good(-). Illustrated, maps drawn by Samuel H. Bryant. xvii + 435 pages, 8vo, grey cloth, d.w.; dust wrapper price clipped, chipped at spine ends. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1959. Very good copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper.<br/> <br/>

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press/Little, Brown and Company, 1959. Hardcover. xvii, 435p. + 8p. photos, later printing, cloth, edgeworn dj.

Little Brown. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. (Marcel Proust, French Authors, Biography) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Boston: Little Brown, 1965. Hardcover. Good/Good. Third edition. Good in good dustwrapper. Corners slightly bent. Light smudge on bottom corners of pages. Edges of spine bumped. Title on spine lightly fading. Dustwrapper price clipped. Small tears on edges of dustwrapper spine and dustwrapper corners. Rear dustwrapper yellow. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.