PROUST Marcel. Chroniques. Paris, La Nouvelle Revue Français - Lot 264

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PROUST Marcel. Chroniques. Paris, La Nouvelle Revue Français - Lot 264
PROUST Marcel. Chroniques. Paris, La Nouvelle Revue Française, 1927; in-8 pulled in-4 paperback, folder and case, damaged (Devauchelle). First edition. One of the 129 copies of the first edition reprinted in quarto format and printed on Lafuma-Navarre laid paper. BONDED IN THE HEADER A LETTER AUTOGRAPHED FROM MARCEL PROUST (to Joseph-Henri Rosny aîné, December 1919, 4 pages in-4). He has just learned that, following an intervention by Léon Daudet and Rosny aîné, he has received the Goncourt Prize for Le Côté des jeunes filles en fleurs. "Infinitely touched by your solicitude which condescends to the material details of the prize", he thanks Rosny at length. As often in his letters he complains about the state of his health: "I have not slept for 8 days and 8 nights". He offers her a choice of dinner: in his room, or "in the more colorful atmosphere of a hotel". Her husband Celeste (her maid), a cab driver, would pick him up. "If I was well enough to get up, he could take us to a Ritz qqonque. It remains to be seen whether you would prefer us to be alone or whether you would prefer me to invite a few people. J.-H. Rosny Aîné, pseudonym of Joseph Henri Honoré Boex is considered one of the founders of modern science fiction. Enclosed a prescription from Doctor Potain (May 1876) prescribing a treatment for Marcel Proust, then five years old
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