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Gifts & Collector's Editions
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In Search of Lost Time. Trans. C.K. Scott
Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin, and D.J. Enright. The Folio
Society, 2001.
6 tomes.
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This recently-reprinted, beautifully-bound edition
in blue with Art Nouveau cover art, on quality
paper, illustrated with photographs by Atget, and
packaged in a slipcover, can be found online from The
Folio Society for under $20 US as part of their
introductory book club offer. A fantastic gift for
any Proust lover.
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In Search of Lost Time. Trans. C.K. Scott
Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin, and D.J. Enright.
Everyman's Library, 2001. ISBN: 1857152506. 4 tomes.
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This edition was only published in the U.K. but is
available online if you hunt around. Try searching
by ISBN. If you are familiar with Everyman's
Library, you know they publish extremely handsome,
quality volumes. This edition is packaged in a
slipcase and has an Introduction by Harold Bloom.
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À la recherche du temps perdu. Paris:
Pléiade, 1987. 4 tomes.
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For those who want to purchase a fine French
edition, these leather-bound volumes are the edition
of choice. This is also the scholarly edition for
those who write on Proust. Be advised, a good third
of each volume is made up of notes and variants, and
the paper is too delicate for marginal notes or
underlining. At one point available as a boxed set,
this edition is now only available in individual
volumes. Try Amazon
Canada or FNAC.com.
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À la recherche du temps perdu. Paris:
Quarto Gallimard, 1999. ISBN: 2070754928. 1 tome.
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Ever want the Recherche in a single
volume? Here it is! The Pléiade edition in
one paperback volume with no notes. The paper is
moderately thin, but I must I say love having the
entire novel in my hand at one time. Again, try Amazon Canada or FNAC.com.
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Album Proust. Paris: Pléiade, 1965.
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This item is something any serious Proustian should
covet. Each year the Bibliothéque de la
Pléiade publishes a leather-bound
"album" dedicated to an individual author.
The "Album Proust" contains over 412
drawings, photographs and other documents relating
to the Recherche and Proust's life.
It is quite rare. Try the bookstalls along the Seine
next time you are in Paris. Or try searching online.
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Karpeles, Eric.
Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to In Search
of Lost Time. London: Thames & Hudson,
2008.
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I like to think that this project was inspired by
the The Novel & the Visual
Arts pages of this site. What a beautiful book!
The dust jacket says it as good as I could:
"Karpele's lavishly illustrated guide
offers a feast for the eyes as it celebrates the
close relationship between the visual and literary
arts in Proust's masterpiece. Karpeles has
identified and located all of the paintings to which
Proust makes exact reference. Where only a
painter's name is mentioned to indicate a
certain mood or appearance, he has chosen a
representative work to illustrate the impression
that Proust sought to evoke." This is a volume
any serious reader of Proust's novel would be
happy to have at hand; the visual dimension of the
work can now be appreciated in full.
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Dictionnaire Marcel Proust. Eds. Annick
Bouillaguet and Brian G. Rogers. Paris: Champion, 2004.
ISBN: 2745309560. 1099 pages.
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Not a book by Proust, but rather an encyclopedia of
all things relating to Proust or mentioned in the
Recherche, in a style similar to the
Oxford Companion series. There are over a thousand
entries written by a team of thirty-seven
international Proust scholars. Very useful, fun to
leaf through, but as a "synthèse
concernant l'homme et
l'écrivain" perhaps a bit too tidy
for my taste. Although published in 2004, it's
difficult to find.
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A Proust Dictionary. Maxine Arnold Vogely.
New York: Whitston, 1981. ISBN: 0878752056.
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This is a great reference work for Proust lovers.
Vogely's entries, from
"Abbaye-aux-Bois" to
"Zurlinden," are modest and
straightforward, and provide page references to the
novel (
Random House and 1954 Pléiade editions).
This is the first place I turn to identify an
unfamiliar reference. Another hard to find treasure.
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Montblanc pen set
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In 1999 as part of their Writers Series Montblanc
produced a limited edition of pens (fountain, ballpen, and
automatic pencil) inspired by Proust: "Crafted
of jet black Montblanc precious resin and 925
sterling silver, the body is engraved with filigree
patterns. Proust's signature and the limited
edition number are engraved on the cap. The 18 kt.
nib is engraved with an hour glass representing our
relationship with time." I've seen these
pens being sold online individually or in a lovely
boxed set with documentation. Beautiful and
expensive.
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