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1975280735New York: Random House 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Reissue 1 of 10000 copies. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Fine in boards as issued in fine slip case. Random House hardcover
1947313881947. Chamonix chez Jean Landru 1947. Un vol. au format pt in-4 265 x 207 mm de 193 pp. en feuilles sous couverture illustrÂŽe ˆ rabats rempliÂŽs et ÂŽtui-chemise de plein cartonnage gris-perle dos lisse titre frappÂŽ ˆ l'oser lie-de-vin. Soigneuse rÂŽalisation. Un des exemplaires du tirage numÂŽrotÂŽ sur vÂŽlin de Rives. Il s'agrÂŽmente - ici en premier tirage - de spirituelles compositions en couleurs de Roger Mauge. ''Dans ce siÂcle du voyage et de la philosophie Zadig entreprend son apprentissage dans un univers partagÂŽ entre le bien et le mal. Trahi par SÂŽmire et Azora dÂŽÂu par l'amour Zadig trouve refuge dans la nature qui est ˆ l'image de Dieu. RemarquÂŽ par le roi d'ƒgypte Moabdar il retourne dans le tourbillon du monde et devient Premier ministre. SÂŽduit par la reine AstartÂŽ et menacÂŽ par la jalousie du roi il fuit bient™t Babylone. C'est l'occasion pour lui d'un retour sur soi et d'une rÂŽflexion sur les caprices de la fatalitÂŽ. Au hasard des aventures qu'il croise sur son chemin en compagnie de l'ermite Zadig devient l'incarnation de la Providence dont les voies restent par ailleurs impÂŽnÂŽtrables. L'ange Jesrad lui rÂŽvÂŽlera une partie des mystÂres de la DestinÂŽe. Si l'homme est sans cesse tiraillÂŽ entre libertÂŽ et dÂŽterminisme il semble bien devoir les concilier. Et c'est lˆ sans doute la seule vÂŽritÂŽ qui nous soit accessible.'' LÂŽgers dÂŽfauts affectant les coupes de l'ÂŽtui. Du reste trÂs belle condition. b42961 unknown
1950GB000LQR2DQI5N00Carlton House New York 1950. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Carlton House, New York hardcover
1930000010961New York: Illustrated Editions Company 1930 1930. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 5 8-144 pp. Quarter brown cloth over blue paper boards with a red and gold decoration on the front board gold lettering blocked in red on the spine with a gold decoration on the spine. Illustrated by a frontispiece and with five full-page illustrations by Mahlon Blaine. A name on the free front endpaper and heavy toning to the pastedowns; jacket shows significant foxing to the reverse and two chips. Illustrated Editions Company [1930] hardcover
192730578London: Nonesuch Press 1927. Edition limited to 1500 copies 12mo pp. 6 156 2; original parchment-backed marbled paper-covered boards lettered in gilt on spine t.e.g. publisher's slipcase with copy number '854' and stamped with the title; generally fine. Dreyfus 48. Nonesuch Press unknown
1929148862New York: The Literary Guild 1929. 1st edition. Nice copy. tall octavo. hardback with dust jacket 11pp. illusts. A resetting of the limited edition with these illustrations which was published by Random House a year earlier and is regarded as one of the landmarks of the American illustrated book. Random House commissioned Rockwell Kent 1882-1971 to illustrate Voltaire's Candide as the first book under its imprint. Light spots to unclipped dust jacket o/w a nice copy The Literary Guild hardcover
192679331London and New York: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited and Dodd Mead and Company 1926. Hardcover. Very good. This satirical novella tells the story of a Zoroastrian philosopher in ancient Babylonia. The singular narrative and unique journey of Zadig still stands as a philosophical reference to “nothing is either good or bad without the comparison of one with the other.†Illustrated by Harry Keen. Octavo: xxvi 316 pp. In a one-half blue morocco over blue cloth binding by Maurin with gilt-stamped titling ornaments and borders five raised bands and marbled endpapers. The spine is sun faded; otherwise very good. John Lane The Bodley Head Limited [and] Dodd, Mead and Company hardcover
1929BOOKS17021New York NY: Random House. Good plus condition-spine faded hinges cracked/loose/No Dustjacket. 1929. reprint. 8vo. 112 pp. . Random House unknown
1973WB17070New York: The Limited Editions Club 1973. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Copy 81 of a total edition of 1500. 4to. Signed by the illustrator May Neama. Excellent copy in publisher's slipase. <br/><br/> The Limited Editions Club hardcover
1975003602New York: Random House 1975. Commemorative Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine Slipcase. 11 1/2" X 7 3/4. Rockwell Kent DJ. Facsimile of 1928 edition which was the first book to bear the Random House imprint celebrates the 50 years that have passed since Bennet Cerf and Donald Klopfer bought The Modern Library to create Random House. Book contains all of the original illustrations including chapter heads and miniature drawings. 113 pp. Orange cloth covered boards have gilt text in dark red title box on spine and dark red decorative box with gilt decorations and ' C ' on front panel. Bits of white showing on spine ends and corners. Paper covered slipcase has pictorial front. Slipcase has light soiling. Digital images available on request. Bookseller's Inventory # 133602 <br/> <br/> Random House hardcover
195424637Privately Printed for the editor at the University Press Cambridge 1954. Sm. 8vo. First Edition thus on laid paper with a portrait frontispiece original tissue guard present; marbled boards blue cloth back lettered and tooled in gilt boards lightly faded else a very good bright clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 400 COPIES. Privately Printed [for the editor] at the University Press, Cambridge, hardcover
197733147Norwalk: Easton Press 1977. First Limited Collector's Easton Press Edition Illustrated by Sylvain Sauvage with full page colour watercolours and black and white throughout the text. The colour frontispiece of Voltaie by Charles Alleberry. 8vo publisher's original gray morocco lettered in gilt on the spine and decorated in gilt on the spine and covers silk endpapers a.e.g. xix 131 pp. A pristine copy as mint. A PRISTINE EXAMPLE OF THE LIMITED ILLUSTRATED EASTON EDITION. Translated from the French by Richard Aldington. With an Introduction by Paul Morand. Candide was first published by Caron de Beaumarchais in 1759. Since that time it has been published in over a dozen languages. This collector's edition was published by advance reservation exclusively for subscribers to The Easton Press collection of "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written". The frontispiece portrait was specially commissioned for this edition. Easton Press unknown
1977Q-0140150412Penguin Classics 1977-07-28. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Penguin Classics paperback
1975307365New York: Random House 1975. Facsimile; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Near Fine slipcase. Very light shelfwear on panel corners and spine crown and heel. Random House hardcover
197750694Lincoln:: Penmaen Press. Near Fine. 1977. Hardcover. Bilingual text: French and English. Translated from the French by Anthony Hecht. Illustrated with six wood engravings by Lynd Ward. Introduction by Arthur Wilson. Limited edition 100 copies. SIGNED by Hecht Ward and Wilson. Light mottling along front gutter else near fine in black cloth and decorated paper covered boards. No slipcase. . Penmaen Press, hardcover
192950556London: Scholartis Press 1929. Edition limited to 1400 copies 8vo pp. xv 1 207 1; orange paper-covered boards backed in black cloth gilt title direct on spine corners rubbed spine spotted textblock clean and sound in a very good dust jacket with some rubbing to edges and a toned spine. Nine of the twelve stories included are presented here in English for the first time. Scholartis Press unknown
193128756New York: Rarity Press 1931. First Thus. Hardcover. Very good in boards. Spine and upper one inch of front panel are faded. Rarity Press hardcover
1928219661928. S.l. Kra / Coll. ''Poivre et sel'' 1928. Un vol. au format gd in-8 213 x 164 mm de 225 pp. brochÂŽ sous couverture ˆ rabats rempliÂŽs. Un des exemplaires numÂŽrotÂŽs du tirage sur vÂŽlin de Rives seul papier. Il s'agrÂŽmente - ici en premier tirage - de savoureuses compositions en couleurs de Jack Pruvost. ''Natif de Merville il a illustrÂŽ Candide de Voltaire''. in BÂŽnÂŽzit. Oeuvre ironique dÂs les premiÂres lignes volontiers sarcastique ˆ l'ÂŽgard le conservatisme social de la noblesse arrogante elle s'avÂre annonciatrice du Figaro de Beaumarchais. Mais Candide est ÂŽgalement un rÂŽcit de formation narrant le voyage qui transformera son hÂŽros ÂŽponyme en philosophe. En somme un TÂŽlÂŽmaque d'un genre nouveau. MahÂŽ RÂŽpertoire des ÂŽditions de luxe p. 199 - BÂŽnÂŽzit VIII Dictionnaire des peintres p. 514. Plats prÂŽsentant un ÂŽclat lÂŽgÂrement altÂŽrÂŽ. Marques brunes en tÂte et queue du dos ; lequel est en outre lÂŽgÂrement ridÂŽ. Rares et discrÂtes rousseurs dans le texte. Un feuillet lÂŽgÂrement effrangÂŽ. Du reste belle condition. Exemplaire non coupÂŽ. b42961 unknown
1945105291945. Paris Henri LefÂbvre 1945. Un vol. in-8 237 x 143 mm de 167 pp. brochÂŽ sous couverture ˆ rabats rempliÂŽs. Premier tirage des 24 compositions sur bois de Mariano Andreu. Un des exemplaires de passe du tirage sur vÂŽlin de Lana d'un tirage total ˆ 475 exemplaires. ''Natif de Barcelone Andreu exposa d'abord dans sa ville natale puis ˆ Londres Munich et New York. Portraitiste et peintre de genre . on cite ses illustrations pour Amphitryon 38 de Jean Giraudoux ou encore Mon amie Nane de Toulet''. in BÂŽnÂŽzit. ''Voyage philosophique dans lÕEurope des LumiÂres La princesse de Babylone constitue un conte oriental somptueux o entre humour et coups de griffe Voltaire dans une course amoureuse ˆ travers le monde dÂŽnigre la sottise du pouvoir absolu et prÂche la tolÂŽrance lՎtat de nature et de libertÂŽ.'' BÂŽnÂŽzit I Dictionnaire des peintres p. 185. Dos lÂŽgÂrement striÂŽ. Du reste trÂs belle condition. b42961 unknown
1950311507New York: Heritage Press 1950. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good slipcase. Shelfwear on slipcase corners and bottom edge. Heritage Press hardcover
1928001057New York: Random House 1928. Book. Illus. by Kent Rockwell. Fine. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A fine copy in a clean slipcase with bumped corners and slightly torn at the bottom. There is no dustjacket. This is a special edition of Voltaire's Candide with 110 illustrations in all including some specially designed chapter heads. Every page has an original illustration by Rockwell Kent. Random House Hardcover
1981123982Berkeley CA: The Arif Press 1981. cloth label on spine. Arif Press. 12mo. cloth label on spine. 16 2 pages. Limited to 150 copies. Translated from the French by P.H. Hanson. Frontispiece facsimile of 1784 engraving. The Arif Press unknown
1927ST15053eLondon: Nonesuch Press 1927. No. 303 of 1500 copies. 191 x 121 mm. 7 1/2 x 4 3/4". 4p.l. 156 pp. 1 leaf. <br/> Original boards covered in marbled paper in muted tones of rose blue and cream parchment spine and tips top edge gilt other edges untrimmed. 11 elegant full-page illustrations and three vignettes by Thomas Lowinsky. Dreyfus 48. ◆Tiny dent to head of spine otherwise A NEAR-MINT COPY clean bright and unread.<br/> <br/> Described in its prospectus as "the airiest and most charming of all Voltaire's romances" this fable set in an exotic land reveals the frothy précieux side of Voltaire's complex personality. Lowinsky 1892-1947 has cleverly illustrated the tale with willowy figures sporting the towering hairdos and plunging necklines of Voltaire's own time and place to suggest that the frivolity of the story reflects homegrown decadence. This was the first of four books he illustrated for Nonesuch; his style is reminiscent of that of Beardsley. Nonesuch Press unknown
197750452Lincoln: Penmaen Press 1977. Hardcover. Fine in Near fine slipcase. 29 x 18 cm. Quarto. 33 pages. Black boards in slipcase. This special edition limited to 200 copies of which this is number 108 and signed by the translator; Anthony Hecht the artist; Lynd Ward and the author of the introduction; Arthur Wilson. Six wood cuts by Lynd Ward. Penmaen Press hardcover
198109742Oxford University Press/The Franklin Press 1981. Fine. Antoni Clave. octavo 154 pages; publisher's full maroon leather decorated in gilt; all edges gilt silkmoire endpapers silk bookmark. From the translation of Tobias Smollet. As New. Oxford University Press/The Franklin Press unknown
