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Remembrance Of Things Past, by Marcel Proust.

Three-volume set published by Random House in 1981. The Terence Kilmartin revision of the C. K. Scott Moncrieff translation, based on the French Pleiade edition. Time Regained is translated by Andreas Mayor, again with Kilmartin's revisions.

While the dust jackets are lovely (the illustration on each cover is repeated on and takes up the entirety of the back of each jacket; I've included a photo of volume two's illustration of flowers as that's my favorite, but all three covers are stellar) I believe this set truly shines when the book itself is revealed: bound in black cloth, with silver stamping to the spines for the title, and with "Marcel Proust" on the front cover of each volume.

Sets like this usually come without the dust jackets, at the cost of very major sunning to the beautiful black spines, which often results in a grey or brown instead of black. I'm very lucky to have found a set that not only includes the covers, but retains the original black cloth bindings.

Each volume opens with a half title page containing the titles of each book contained in said volume, as well as the first two lines of Shakespeare's sonnet 30, from which Moncrieff's English title is taken (a more literal translation of the original French, À la recherche du temps perdu, or In Search of Lost Time, has since been adopted). The full title pages of each volume contain the book titles in a gorgeous serif font, as well as a small illustration that changes with each volume.

I'll be reading these for the first time beginning this autumn; I'm looking forward to the journey!

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65 LGBT Books by Black Authors

In honor of Pride Month obviously, here’s my next list! Please continue to add authors and books to this list! 

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

Another Country by James Baldwin

Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone by James Baldwin

Invisible Life by E. Lynn Harris

Just as I am (Invisible Life #2) by E. Lynn Harris

I Say a Little Prayer by E. Lynn Harris

Hood Witch by Faylita Hicks

You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson

Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett

By Any Means Necessary by Candice Montgomery

A Dream so Dark by LL McKinney

The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus

Build Yourself a Boat by Camonghne Felix

Little and Lion by Brandy Colbert

Skin Deep Magic by Craig Laurance Gidney

The Summer We Got Free by Mia McKenzie

Juniper Leaves by Jaz Joyner

Queer Africa - Selected Stories

The Yellow Brownstone by Lisa K. Stephenson

Freedom in This Village by E. Lynn Harris

Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction by Devon W. Carbado

In Case You Forgot by Frederick Smith and Chaz Lamar

Mogul by Terrance Dean

Potomac University Series by Rashid Darden

The Secrets of Eden by Brandon Goode

Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann

Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized Spaces by Michelle Sewell

Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin by James Campbell

Black Lesbian in White America by Anita Cornwell**

If We Have to Take Tomorrow by Frank Leon, White Roberts, and Marvin K.

Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men edited by Essex Hemphill

In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology by Joseph Beam

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Real Life by Brandon Taylor

Here for It by R. Eric Thomas

Romance in Marseille by Claude McKay

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta

The House You Pass on the Way by Jacqueline Woodson

Black Deutschland by Darryl Pinckney

A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan

Crossfire: A Litany for Survival by Staceyann Chin

The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir by Staceyann Chin

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde

Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith

Lives of Great Men by Chike Frankie Edozien

Burnt Men by Oluwasegun Romeo Oriogun**

She Called Me Woman edited by Azeenarh Mohammed, Chitra Nagarajan, and Rafeeat Aliyu

B-Side and Other Misheard Lyrics by L.M. Bennett

For Sizakele by Yvonne “Fly” Onakeme Etaghene

Black Power Barbie Volume 1: Love Lives of Heroes by Shay Youngblood

Loving Her by Ann Allen Shockley

No Telephone to Heaven by Michelle Cliff

Something Better than Home by Leona Beasley

Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn

Yabo by Alexis De Veaux

Fragments that Remain by Steven Corbin

Vanishing Rooms by Melvin Dixon

Blackbird by Larry Duplechan

B-Boy Blues Series by James Earl Hardy

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez

**I could not find links to buy both of these books, so if anyone is able to please add them to the post!

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Wanted to share this somewhere so here this is!! Been filling up my Barker collection over the past month or so and I'm quite proud of what I have. Currently working my way through Great and Secret Show.

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I started reading The Toilers of the Sea and in the introduction Graham Robb mentions that Hugo had one of his seances with an ocean which wanted to dictate music to him:

Amazing!!!

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my edition of toilers of the sea is in portuguese and it was published by cosacnaify which was the GREATEST most AWESOMEST publisher that ever existed, however briefly, and it makes me SAD

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I spent some time near the seaside, today🐚💫

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The romance of a books naked edges are akin to the visible areas of an iceberg, while the ideas,thoughts and meanings lie unseen from this perspective therein exists its trueness of whole. 

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Another mild, orange-gold October day.

Sylvia Plath - from a letter to her mother featured in

Letter Home

(via yidan)

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Source.

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🌈 ft. only YA/NA books with LGBTQ+ themes

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I love books so much.

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Magic.

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Bookish Bedrooms