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1977288078Norwalk. : Easton Press. 1977. Hardcover full gray leather raised bands gilt decorations all edges gilt silk end papers ribbon marker. . Bookplate to pastedown otherwise fine no dustjacket as issued. . Large 8vo. Translated by Richard Aldington. Illustrated by Sylvain Sauvage. Easton Press. hardcover books
197790897Norwalk:: Easton Press. Near Fine. 1977. Hardcover. B00H9Z9SJI . Translated from the French by Richard Aldington. Introduction by Paul Morand. Collector's edition. Large octavo bound in gray leather with gilt lettering and design raised bands along spine all edges gilt silk moire endpapers sewn-in ribbon book mark. Near fine.; 131 pages . Easton Press, hardcover books
197331777NY: Limited Editions Club. Very Good. 1973. Hardcover. B000OO2W5S . Translated from the French by Richard Aldington. Introduction by Anatole Broyard. Illustrated by May Neama. This copy is number 969 of a limited edition of 1500 copies. SIGNED by the illustrator. Near fine in a very good some light mottling slipcase. . Limited Editions Club hardcover books
197721158Norwalk:: Easton Press. Near Fine. 1977. Hardcover. B00H9Z9SJI . Translated from the French by Richard Aldington. Introduction by Paul Morand. Collector's edition. Large octavo bound in gray leather with gilt lettering and design raised bands along spine all edges gilt silk endpapers ribbon book mark. Blank Easton Press book-plate affixed to front endpage else about fine.; 131 pages . Easton Press, hardcover books
1930L046960Editions Nilsson 1930. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" 217 4 pages plates. Text in French. Illustrated edition of the 3 short novels; notable for the tipped-in pochoir stencilled watercolor illustrations on glassine. Date is conjectural not dated in book. Few small chips browning and slight rubbing to color pictorial glassine jacket; inner upper hinge starting; slight browning to plates generally unaffecting images; slight internal browning to edges.Polack Robert illustrator; 6 Color Illustrations / Plates. Editions Nilsson paperback
1759elala1495np Paris: 1759. 1759. 12mo. pp. 237 3. contemporary calf gilt back spine ends worn. Published the same year as the first. Voltaires witty and devastating attack on philosophical and religious optimism is generally regarded as his most masterful composition. Published surreptitiously no less than seventeen different printings and editions appeared in 1759. Bengesco 1440. Martin 59.25. cfCioranescu 64321. cfQuérard X 323. cfPrinting and the Mind of Man 204. BOUND WITH: POPE Alexander 1688-1744. Essai Sur LHomme Traduit de lAnglois en François Édition revûe par le Traducteur Second Édition. 12mo. pp. 2 p.l. vii-xxxvi 189 3privilege. woodcut ornaments & title vignette. Lausanne: Marc Michel Bousquet & Compagnie 1752. np [Paris]: 1759. unknown
1952316680Paris: Gibert Jeune Librairie d'Amateurs 1952. Softcover. Near Fine. Limited edition. Small octavo. Illustrations by Umberto Brunelleschi. Some toning with wear to the spine ends near fine in pictorial wrappers with very good chipped and torn original glassine dustwrapper. One of 3000 numbered copies. Includes titillating illustrations throughout: 16 color and 23 black and white. Gibert Jeune Librairie d'Amateurs unknown
19288733<p>One of 237 copies number 211 one of 185 on Vélin de Montval. Sylvain Sauvage ws the pseudonym of the artist Félix Roy 1888-1948. He later illustrated the Nonesuch edition of Candide.</p><p>4to 280 × 220 mm pp. 6 157 7 including frontispiece and title 54 etched illustrations and vignettes by Sauvage including the cover hand-coloured numerous decorative initials printed in red and black. Uncut in original pictorial wrappers chemise and slipcase. An excellent copy.</p> [Frazier-Soye and Paul Haasen for] the artist and A. Maillart.
99718Paris Jules Tallandier 1927. . Voltaire 1694-1778. - Leder mit Schabstellen Paris, Jules Tallandier, ( 1927). unknown
1759752Genève Geneva: Cramer 1759. First Edition. 3 vols. in one 12mo 164 x 100mm pp. 2 291 1; 133 1 35 1. First printing of the great 18th century philosophical narrative with all the points correct. Including the 3 usual cancels the right title page ornament repeated pages 193 and 266 the misprints of “que ce ce fut†page 103 line 4 and “précisément†page 125 line 4 the correction removing a paragraph break page 31 the rewritten lines about the Lisbon earthquake page 41 etc. Contemporary full calf red calf label rebacked with the original spine saved and laid down recornered marbled endpapers gilt rubbed inner paper hinges strengthened old ink signatures on the endpaper and front blank tiny signature on the title page one tissue strengthened tear at the bottom of A2 touching the last 3 lines of text without any loss otherwise internally quite nice clean and very good. Bound without N7 a blank and N8 a notice to the binder as is usual agreeing in all respects to what you would have received if you had purchased a copy in sheets on publication day then bought the sequels and then handed them over to the most local Swiss bindery. Ref: PMM 204. There were 18 editions of Candide in 1759. It took 221 years for a clear and convincing bibliography to first sort them out and then got accepted and once accepted our real 1st edition was confirmed as rare. In the last 15 years however that bibliographical data has been more widely circulated and several 1st editions that weren’t on the original 22–copy census have come into market. It is still scarce more so in a contemporary binding.<br /> <br /> Candide bides as the epitomic philosophical fable of the French Enlightenment and the genotype of irony without exaggeration and though it’s laced with more salt than the postwar streets of Carthage it repeatedly tolls a reminder that light hearts live long. Most importantly Candide remains remarkably relevant when examined through contemporary frameworks functioning as an incisive proto-postcolonial text that anticipates modern discourse on global inequality systems of oppression and the limitations of Enlightenment rationality. The novel's scathing portrayal of slavery conquest and religious persecution resonates with intersectional analyses that recognize how power structures interlock across racial gender and economic dimensions. The savage irony throughout the text dismantles not just philosophical optimism but also European exceptionalism exposing the hypocrisy of colonial enterprises and religious institutions alike. The narrative's episodic structure—with its global movements between Europe South America and the Ottoman Empire—invites discussions of transnationalism and diasporic experience while Candide's concluding retreat to cultivate his garden has been reinterpreted by ecocritical scholars as both an acknowledgment of environmental interdependence and a potentially problematic withdrawal from systems-level political engagement.<br /> <br /> “Do you believe†said Candide “that men have always massacred each other as they do to-day that they have always been liars cheats traitors ingrates brigands idiots thieves scoundrels gluttons drunkards misers envious ambitious bloody–minded calumniators debauchees fanatics hypocrites and fools†“Do you believe†said Martin “that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they have found them†<br /> –Voltaire Candide. Cramer unknown
192824452Paris: Kra Éditeur 1928. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrated by Pruvost. Third volume in the Poivre et Sel series. Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies on Rives paper. 225pp. Original pictorial wrappers in glassine. Frontispiece and numerous in-text illustrations in color by Pruvost. Light toning to top edge of front cover and spine where the glassine is torn. Previous owner's name on the first page otherwise internally extremely clean and with the publisher's promotional announcement still intact. A near fine copy. In the French language. ; Octavo. Kra, Éditeur unknown
1952262292Paris: Gibert Jeune 1952. paperback. near fine/near fine. 16 color plates 23 text decorations by Brunelleschi. 162pp. 12mo pictorial wrappers; uncut. Paris; Gibert Jeune 1952. Limited Edition.<br/><br/> Fine in original tissue dust wrapper with a closed tear on the spine.<br/><br/> Gibert Jeune unknown books
1924MVOLCAN1Paris PIAZZA, Le Livre Français 1924 Grand in-8, broché, couverrture rempliée. Un des 4000 ex. sur papier Vélin, n° 4399.
1913WRCLIT46453Paris: Georges Crès et Cie / Les Maitres du Livre 1913. Printed wrappers. Woodcut portrait by P.-E. Vibert. One of 1240 numbered copies on Rives from a total edition of 1568. Very good unopened. Georges Crès et Cie / Les Maitres du Livre unknown books
21899Paris, Editions Rombaldi, (1952). Un vol. pt in-8 (202 x 152 mm) de 188 pp., broché, sous couvertures à rabats rempliés. Un des exemplaires du tirage numéroté sur vélin crème N°5141, recelant de délicates compositions en couleurs de Van Moppès gravées sur cuivre et coloriées au pochoir, ici en premier tirage.
175908228Geneva: Gabriel Cramer 1759. First Edition. Full Leather. Fine. The third of the first four editions according to Bengesco 1436 and the fourth edition according to Wade see Voltaire and Candide 1959 p. 201 dated 1759 with 299 pages clandestinely printed and published by Cramer in Geneva and preceeding the other 16 different editions published throughout Europe in 1759. The present copy conforms to Bengesco 1436 in every respect which is "page by page line for line like the first edition" except for the "que ce ce fut" error on page 103 an error which was introduced by Cramer into the early printings then doubtless not "fixed" as it was correct in the first place. Note that the fleurons agree exactly with Bengesco 1436 as follows: p. 134 is a basket of fruits; p. 228 shows two horns 'a plenty; the fleuron at p. 115 is repeated on pages 179 and 193; fleuron on page 213 is signed N. C. and is repeated on page 279; page 277 is paginated 177. The present copy also agrees with Wade see Voltaire and Candide 1959 p. 201 in every respect including that page 17 is numbered 15. Both the above references to Bengesco and Wade show signatures A-N3 meaning they are bound without the Table of Chapters; the present copy like 7 of the 10 known copies of the first edition shows signatures A-N6 without the final leaves N7 a blank and without N8 instructions to the binder concerning the cancellation of two pairs of leaves B4 B9 and D6 D7. In addition to the above let us state the textual points in the present copy: page 31 B4 an unnecessary paragraph break was eliminated. The words "mais il y a une raison." do NOT start a new paragraph; page 41 B9 several short sentences about the Lisbon earthquake were rewritten as "car dit-il tout ceci est."; page 84 D6 D7 reads "Nos filles se trouverent."; page 103 reads "que ce fut." as explained above was correct to begin with then discovered by Cramer and was not "fixed"; page 125 reads "mais ils se leverent precisement."; page 242 the paragraph beginning "Candide etait afflige."; has been removed by Voltaire while the book was being printed as it was critical of German poets. Pages 121 - 168 signatures F and G are a larger type than the rest of the book. In summation the present copy agrees with the first edition except that the "que ce ce fut." error was discovered and not inserted and the fleurons differ but are by Cramer who printed the first four editions. This a wide margined copy is larger than other copies we have seen at 165 mm x 95 mm; beautifully bound in late 19th Century full tan leather with raised bands and gilt decoration on spine with a brown leather lettering piece marbled end papers all edges gilt; printed on laid paper. The text is remarkably clean and bright; a fine copy. PMM204. <br/><br/> Gabriel Cramer hardcover books
193720801937 S.l. (Paris), Editions de Cluny, s.d. (1937). In-8°, br., couv. rempliée ill. en couleurs, non coupé.
19572132PARIS. EDITIONS DU DEMI-JOUR. 1957. IN-8 (17,5 X 23,5 X 3 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON) DE 192 + (3) PAGES, RELIURE D’EPOQUE 1/2 MAROQUIN ROUGE A COINS, DOS A QUATRE NERFS SOULIGNES DE FILETS DORES, TITRE DORE, COUVERTURE ILLUSTREE D'UNE VIGNETTE EN COULEURS ET DOS CONSERVES. ILLUSTRE DE 25 COMPOSITIONS IN ET HORS TEXTE MISES EN COULEURS A LA MAIN DANS LES ATELIERS D'EDMOND VAIREL. PREMIER TIRAGE LIMITE A 3500 EXEMPLAIRES NUMEROTES, TOUS SUR VELIN DE LANA, CELUI-CI PORTANT LE NUMERO 174. DOS ET PLATS LEGEREMENT INSOLES, SINON BEL EXEMPLAIRE.
19451650Paris La Belle Page 1945 In-8 (27 x 20 cm.), 119 pp. , broché, sous couverture rempliée, chemise et étui. Edition tirée à 1000 exemplaires, celui-ci est un des 190 sur B.F.K. de Rives teinté, premier papier, avant 400 simili-japon et 400 sur vélin.
LCS-18034Cette édition originale de Candide est très rare. S.l. [Genève, Cramer], 1759. [Reliés à la suite] : II- [Maubert de Gouvest, Jean-Henri]. Ephraïm justifié. Mémoire historique et raisonné sur l’état passé, présent et futur des finances de Saxe... adressé par le Juif Ephraïm à son cousin Manasses d’Amsterdam. Nouvelle édition. Erlangen, 1758. III- [Du même]. Lettre du Prince de Prusse mourant, au Roi son frère. Erlangen, 1758. IV- [Rémond de Saint-Sauveur]. Remerciement d’un Particulier à Messieurs les Philosophes du Jour. V-[Coyer, Gabriel-François]. Lettre au R.P. Berthier sur le matérialisme. Genève (Paris), 1759. Soit 5 ouvrages reliés en 1 volumes in-12 de : I/ (1) f.bl., 299 pp. (signatures A-Nh), (1) f.bl. ; II/ viii pp., 103 ; III/ 23 pp. ; IV/ 8 pp. ; V/ 77 pp. L’encre noire a légèrement déchargé en transparence lors de l’impression de Candide. Reliure de l’époque en veau marbré, dos lisse orné de motifs dorés, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, tranches rouges. Reliure de l’époque. 161 x 93 mm.
19792312612Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library 1979. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Clave Antoni. Near fine. 1979 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 154 pp. Black cloth binding with gilt decoration and gilt edges. Decorative endpapers. "Candide ou l'Optimisme /kndid/ kon-DEED5 French: kdid About this soundlisten is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment.6 The novella has been widely translated with English versions titled Candide: or All for the Best 1759; Candide: or The Optimist 1762; and Candide: Optimism 1947.7 It begins with a young man Candide who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism by his mentor Professor Pangloss.8 The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle followed by Candide's slow and painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire concludes Candide with if not rejecting Leibnizian optimism outright advocating a deeply practical precept "we must cultivate our garden" in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss "all is for the best" in the "best of all possible worlds". Candide is characterized by its tone as well as by its erratic fantastical and fast-moving plot. A picaresque novel with a story similar to that of a more serious coming-of-age narrative Bildungsroman it parodies many adventure and romance clich The Franklin Library hardcover books
1763207551763 Sans lieu, ni nom d'éditeur, 1763, 2 parties en 1 volume in-12 de 215-132 pp., reliure de l'époque de demi-veau fauve marbré à coins, dos lisse orné de fleurons dorés, pièce de titre verte, restauration en bas du dos, bon exemplaire.
1952252851952 Gibert Jeune Librairie d'Amateurs, Paris, 1952. In-8 ( 205 X 130 mm ), de 161 pages, broché sous couverture illustrée en couleurs rempliée. 16 hors-texte et des 23 dessins en noir de BRUNELLESCHI, le coloris des hors-textes a été exécuté par H. MONNIER.Un des 3000 exemplaires numérotés, bel exemplaire, Limited edition. Small octavo. Illustrations by Umberto Brunelleschi. Some toning with wear to the spine ends, near fine in pictorial wrappers with very good chipped and torn original glassine dustwrapper. One of 3000 numbered copies. Includes titillating illustrations throughout: 16 color and 23 black and white. [Attributes: Soft Cover]
1975176NY:: Random House. Very Good. 1975. Hardcover. 0394499034 . Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Translated from the French. First edition thus. Produced on the occasion of Random House's 50th anniversary. Small folio in tan cloth with red and gilt labels on front and spine. Fine in a very good minor edge wear and age toning illustarated slipcase. . Random House, hardcover books
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
