First edition, first printing. 352pp, copiously illustrated in full colour. Green cloth-covered boards, black lettering on the spine. Green endpapers. 8vo. Cloth very slightly pushed at spine ends else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original dust wrapper, very slightly bumped on extreme edges.
In Search of Lost Time is one of the most profoundly visual novels, devoted to the detailed description of people and places. Karpeles' 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 each of the paintings to which Proust makes specific reference, and chooses representative works to match vaguer references.
