Book dedicated to lover sold for world record $1.7 million

Another rare copy of Proust's "Du cote de chez Swann" was also sold at Sotheby's for 535,500 euros last year. [AFP / CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT]

A copy of Marcel Proust's "Swann's Way" which he dedicated to his "little darling", sold for 1.51 million euros ($1.7 million) in Paris Friday -- a world record for a French book, auction house Sotheby's said.