Bell (Clive) Proust
£125
London, Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1928.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original patterned cloth with paper spine label.
An early and influential English-language critical essay on Proust by one of the central figures of the Bloomsbury Group. Bell was among the first British critics to engage seriously with Proust’s work.
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Contemporary ownership notation to front endpaper; spine a little dulled with fading to label lettering.
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