{
  "full": "\n**MARCEL PROUST. SWANN’S WAY. 1928–1971; 1977–1982. (ML 59)**  \n\n#### 166.1a. First printing (1928)  \n\n[within double rules] SWANN’S WAY | [rule] | BY | MARCEL PROUST | [rule] | TRANSLATED BY | C. K. SCOTT MONCRIEFF | [rule] | INTRODUCTION BY | LEWIS GALANTIÈRE | [rule] | [torchbearer B] |[rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK  \n\nPp. [i–vi] vii–xv [xvi], 1–551 [552]. [1–17]16 [18]12  \n\n[i] half title; [ii] pub. note D5; [iii] title; [iv] *Copyright,* 1928, *by* THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC. | [short double rule] | *First Modern Library Edition* | 1928; [v] CONTENTS; [vi] blank; vii–xv INTRODUCTION signed p. xv: Lewis Galantière. | New York, | *September,* 1928.; [xvi] blank; 1–551 text; [552] blank.  \n\n>*Variant:* Pp. [i–vi] vii–xv [xvi], 1–551 [552–560].  [1–18]16. Contents as 166.1a except: [ii] pub. note A6;  [552] blank; [553–558] ML list; [559–560] blank. (*Spring 1934*)  \n\n*Jacket A:* Uniform typographic jacket D. (*Fall 1928*)  \n\n*Jacket B:* Pictorial in moderate orange (53) and black on cream paper with silhouette of Proust in reverse on inset scalloped black panel; borders in moderate orange, lettering in moderate orange and black. Signed: Brienza.  \n\n>Front flap:
  *Swann’s Way* is the first volume of Marcel Proust’s life work,  *Remembrance of Things Past*. Independently, it is a unique and stimulating novel, but in a larger sense, it is an overture to a magnificent symphony, announcing its theme and mood and bringing into being its empire of notable character creations. (*Spring 1934*)  \n\nOriginally published in U.S. in two volumes by Henry Holt & Co., 1922, using imported sheets of the Chatto & Windus edition. Published in one volume by Albert & Charles Boni, 1930; using plates made from a new typesetting. ML edition printed from Boni plates. Published November 1928. *WR* 1 December 1928. First printing: Not ascertained. Discontinued 1971/72. Reissued 1977–1982.  \n\nKlopfer initially offered royalties of 5 cents a copy, then increased the offer to 8 cents (Klopfer to Bernice Baumgarten, Brandt & Brandt, 23 March 1928 and 29 March 1928).  \n\nThe ML edition sold nearly 30,000 copies during its first four years with annual sales as follows: 11,874 copies; 8,854 copies; 5,395 copies; and 3,513 copies (Cerf to Kenneth Roberts, 23 November 1938). *Swann’s Way* was high in the third quarter of ML titles during the 18-month period May 1942–October 1943. Sales increased significantly during the early 1950s. It ranked in the middle of the second quarter of ML sales during the 12-month period November 1951–October 1952  \n\n#### 166.1b. Title page reset (1941)  \n\nSWANN’S | WAY | BY | MARCEL PROUST | TRANSLATED BY | C. K. SCOTT MONCRIEFF | INTRODUCTION BY | LEWIS GALANTIÈRE | [torchbearer D3] | [rule] | MODERN LIBRARY · NEW YORK | [rule]  \n\nPagination and collation as 166.1a.  \n\nContents as 166.1a variant except: [ii] blank; [iv] COPYRIGHT, 1928, BY THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC.; [553–557] ML list; [558–559] ML Giants list; [560] blank. (*Fall 1941*)  \n\n*Jacket:* Not seen; probably as 166.2a.  \n\n#### 166.2a. Text reset (1948?)  \n\nTitle as 166.1b except lines 8–9: LEWIS GALANTIERE | [torchbearer D4]  \n\nPp. [i–vi] vii–xiv, [1–2] 3–611 [612–618]. [1–18]16 [19]12 [20]16  \n\n[i] half title; [ii] blank; [iii] title; [iv] COPYRIGHT, 1928, BY THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC.; [v] CONTENTS; [vi] blank; vii–xiv *INTRODUCTION* signed p. xiv: Lewis Galantiere. | New York, *September,* 1928.; [1] fly title; [2] blank; 3–611 text; [612] blank; [613–618] ML list. (*Spring 1952*) *Note:* The accent grave is omitted from Galantière’s name on the title page and at the end of the introduction. His name is seen in both forms, but Galantière appears to be the more formal and correct.  \n\n>*Variant:* Pagination as 166.2a. [1]16  [2–9]32 [10]28 [11]16. Contents  as 166.2a except: [iv] second line added: COPYRIGHT, RENEWED, 1956,  BY THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC. (*Fall 1956*)  \n\n*Jacket:* Pictorial in moderate blue (182) and gold on coated white paper with silhouette of Proust in gold against solid moderate blue background with lettering in reverse. Designed by Joseph Blumenthal. \n\n> Front flap as 166.1a jacket B. (*Fall 1951*)  \n\n#### 166.2b. Title page with Fujita torchbearer (1968)  \n\nTitle as 166.1b through line 8; lines 9–10: [torchbearer K] | MODERN LIBRARY · NEW YORK *Note:* The title page is a photographic reproduction of the 166.1b title page, including the accent grave in Galantière, with torchbearer K in place of torchbearer D3 and the rule omitted.  \n\nPagination as 166.2a. [1]16 [2–8]32n[9]28 [10]32 [11]16  \n\nContents as 166.2a variant except: [612–613] ML Giants list; [614–618] blank. (*Spring 1967*)  \n\n*Jacket:* As 166.2a.  \n\n#### 166.1c. Reissue format (1977)  \n\nSWANN’S WAY | MARCEL PROUST | *Translated by* | C. K. SCOTT MONCRIEFF |*Introduction by* | LEWIS GALANTIÈRE | [torchbearer M] | THE MODERN LIBRARY · *New York*  \n\nPagination as 166.1b. Perfect bound.  \n\nContents as 166.1a except: [ii] blank; [iv] *Copyright 1928 by The Modern Library, Inc.* | *Copyright renewed 1956 by The Modern Library, Inc.*; [552–560] blank.  \n\n*Jacket:* Non-pictorial on kraft paper with lettering in reddish brown and torchbearer in brown.  \n\n>Front flap:
  *Swann’s Way*, the first volume of Proust’s great seven-volume masterpiece *Remembrance of Things Past*, was first published in France in 1913, at Proust’s own expense. The most popular of his books, it stands alone as a unique recreation of what was actually  Proust’s own childhood. Swann, the focal character, is the son of a stockbroker and has entered into an “unfortunate” marriage. Marcel, the narrator, remembers that his family’s guests during the early period of his life were practically limited to Swann, who, like the  other people in Marcel’s early memories, seemed to him to be “abounding in leisure, fragrant with the scent of the great chestnut-tree.”   If I think of it,” says Marcel at the end of *Remembrance of Things Past*, “the substance of my experience came to me through Swann.”  \n\nPublished fall 1977 at \\$5.95. ISBN 0-394-60429-6.  \n\nAlso in the Modern Library  \nProust, *Within a Budding Grove* (1930–1970) 194  \nProust, *Guermantes Way* (1933–1970) 264  \nProust, *Cities of the Plain* (1938–1970) 316  \nProust, *The Captive* (1941–1970) 340  \nProust, *Sweet Cheat Gone* (1948–1971) 408  \nProust, *The Past Recaptured* (1951–1971) 443  \n\n",
  "id": "166",
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  "author": "MARCEL PROUST",
  "title": "SWANN’S WAY.",
  "date": "1928–1971; 1977–1982.",
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