MARCEL PROUST | SIGNED ALS
[n.d.]. Framed handwritten letter, two pages. Measures 4.5" x 7 each. In Very Good minus condition. In a silver painted wood frame with a white cloth mat, measuring 14.25" x 11.75". Frame has scuffing to edges. The letter is addressed to an unknown friend and is undated but features Robert de Montesquiou's monogrammed wet stamp top right corner of first page. Written in French with black ink. The letter has light age toning and creasing. Hung --.
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Shelved Dupont Bookstore
Price: $3,500
NOTES
French author and critic Marcel Proust's seven book series, "In Search Of Lost Time."
Second Story Books is honored to offer this item from the personal collection of Neil and Susan Sheehan. Neil Sheehan (1936–2021) and Susan Sheehan (born 1937) were a distinguished husband-and-wife team whose careers helped define American literary journalism in the second half of the twentieth century. Neil Sheehan, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The New York Times, is best known for his role in bringing the Pentagon Papers to public attention and for his landmark book A Bright Shining Lie, while Susan Sheehan built a parallel reputation as a leading voice at The New Yorker, crafting deeply reported narrative nonfiction on subjects ranging from mental health to social institutions, earning her own Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Their longstanding ties to major publications, particularly The New Yorker, placed them at the center of an influential cultural and intellectual network, and artwork from their collection carries added provenance through this close connection to the magazine’s editorial and artistic community.