PROUST, Marcel; SCOTT MONCRIEFF, C.K. (translator), Remembrance of Things Past [À la recherche du temps perdu; now translated as In Search of Lost Time]. Comprising: Swann's Way [2 Vols]; Within a Budding Grove [2 Vols]; The Guermantes Way [2 Vols]; Cities of the Plain [2 Vols]; The Captive; The Sweet Cheat Gone; Time Regained [Complete in 11 Vols; all first editions, first impressions] (London and New York: Chatto & Windus; Alfred A. Knopf), 1922–1931

Published in 11 volumes by Chatto & Windus and Alfred A. Knopf between 1922 and 1931; all volumes are first edition, first impressions.

Scott Moncrieff's translation of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu was the first English edition, published during the period when the original French was appearing. Just as the last volumes of the French appeared after Proust had died in 1922, the final volume of this set was published in 1931, translated by Stephen Hudson (a pseudonym of Sydney Schiff), Scott Moncrieff having died in 1930.

Subsequent editions have departed from the titling and stylistic conventions used by Scott Moncrieff, but for at least a generation this was the definitive text, and is now considered a classic in its own right.

A good set: scattered foxing to the text as usual, but not significant and the later volumes are generally clean throughout; discreet ownership inscriptions to most volumes; cloth of Guermantes Vol. 1 mottled; Swann's Way Vol. 1 with fading and wear to the spine; Time Regained with the scarce dust-jacket, spine of dj faded with a closed tear; personal ex libris plates to Swann's Way Vol. 2 and Time Regained; Chatto promotional flyer laid in to Time Regained.

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