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FLFR0350Genève : Cramer 1764. 405 S. Pergamentband d. Zt. sehr gut erhalten im Text frisch u. nahezu fleckenfrei [Genève] : [Cramer], 1764. unknown
179231870Paris: Chez Madame Vaux-Fleuri De l'Imprimerie de L. Potier de Lille 1792. First edition. 1-2 title verso blank leaf paged 63-64 with "Avis" and "Errata" 3-74 small woodcuts. 1 vols. 8vo. Later boards uncut. Spine and extremities rubbed with chipping a few leaves with spots else a very good copy. First edition. 1-2 title verso blank leaf paged 63-64 with "Avis" and "Errata" 3-74 small woodcuts. 1 vols. 8vo. According to the editor's "Avis" most of these fugitive pieces appear first here and some which have appeared elsewhere have been amended or corrected. Includes Mr. D. Rhullieres' "La Chanoinesse Conte" "Sur le Buste de Mirabeau" by M. Deseine"sourd et muet de naissance" and "La Mort de Patrocle Tragédie en Deux Actes¶ Commencing on page 25 is the "Epitre a Monsieur de Voltaire du 31 Decembre 1742" with the "Stances" pp. 28-30. On page 31 is the "Reponse de M. De Voltaire du Premier janvier 1743 Chez Madame Vaux-Fleuri [De l'Imprimerie de L. Potier de Lille] unknown
1759023043London: J. Scott and J. Gretton. Rebound in full new leather. Scholars have differed about whether this edition or the Nourse edition published in the same year was the First Edition in English. At the very least the First Edition of This Translation. One of the greatest works in all literature. According to PMM 204: The folly of philosophic and religious optimism is displayed with a vigor and wit that carries the reader away. Near Fine. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1759. J. Scott and J. Gretton hardcover
196587858Milano Giovanni De Stefanis e Mondadori 1965. Volume in formato atlante cm 425 x 29 piena pelle verde con impressioni oro ai piatti e titolo al dorso. In cofanetto. Pp. 213 5 n.n.; le trenta dette tavole sono a piena pagina e antecedenti ad ogni capitolo. Bella edizione d'Artista in barbe stampata su carta a mano filigranata in 500 esemplari numerati. In perfetto stato di conservazione Milano, Giovanni De Stefanis e Mondadori unknown
1939214704London: Nonesuch Press 1939. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Fair slipcase. Slipcase split along rear side and bottom panel edges. Nonesuch Press hardcover
1977331919Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 1977. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine Leather Bound. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines.; 100 Greatest Books Ever Written Collector's Edition. Easton Press hardcover
1977216580Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 1977. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine Leather Bound. Printed on archival paper with gilded bottom and side edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines.; The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written Collector's Edition. Easton Press hardcover
1973mon0000020382Limited Editions Club 1973. Hardcover. Like New. in x in x in. Unread. Limited numbered edition this being book number 179. Signed by the illustrator. No markings in book. Binding is tight. There is a round perhaps bookplate on front free page that has 3 initials. Slipcase as some rubbing to covers and a bump to spine edge. Limited Editions Club hardcover
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
193017483New York: Random House 1930. First Trade Edition. Cloth. Very good/near fine. The first trade edition of Candide by Voltaire from Random House inscribed and hand-numbered by the illustrator Rockwell Kent. Octavo 2 111pp 1. Publisher's red cloth title stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine. Both hinges showing wear with archival reinforcement to both as is common with this book. Solid text block internally clean. In the publisher's first state dust jacket advertisements for other Random House imprints on the rear panel a few scuff marks closed tears at heel of the spine a bright near fine example. This copy is inscribed by Rockwell Kent on the title page: ".especially for Marjorie Wallace! no - 15!! / Rockwell Kent / Montreal / October 1930." Candide was illustrated by Rockwell Kent beginning in the fall of 1927. It was the first book published by Random House. The book was produced by Pynson Printers. The book first appeared as a limited edition of 1470 numbered and signed copies in 1928. It sold out almost immediately. The following year it was released in trade editions by the Literary Guild in 1929 and this copy from Random House in 1930. Johnson p. 44-46. Random House unknown
1981312788New York: Franklin Library / Oxford University Press 1981. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Antoni Clave. Near Fine Bound in one quarter premium full leather. Accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. Decorated endsheets and with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints.; First Franklin Library Edition. Franklin Library / Oxford University Press hardcover
1979230650Franklin Center.: Franklin Library. 1979. First edition thus. Gilt decorated hardcover. Green leather. Gilt edges. Fine copy. 4to. Illustrated by Antoni Clave. Very scarce in this condition. Franklin Library. 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
1949148560New York: Hermitage House 1949. Hermitage House limited edition of Voltaire’s satirical masterpiece. Octavo bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands gilt ruling to the front and rear panels all edges gilt gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles marbled endpapers with black and white illustrations. One of 1500 numbered copies this is number 500. In fine condition. Illustrated by Sydney Joseph. One of the most influential thinkers of the French Enlightenment François-Marie Arouet know by the nom de plum Voltaire was a resourceful and prolific writer. His works touched nearly every literary form including plays poems novels theoretical essays and scientific treatises. A forthright and candid advocate of civil liberties he frequently criticized the institutions of religious dogma and classism prevalent in 18th century France often doing so through satire to avoid censorship and imprisonment. Candide has ranked as one of the world's great satires since its first publication in 1759. It concerns the adventures of the youthful Candide who in the course of his travels in Europe and South America saw and suffered such misfortune that it was difficult for him to believe this was "the best of all possible worlds." Indeed it seemed to be quite the opposite. In brilliantly skewering such naïveté Voltaire mercilessly exposes and satirizes romance science philosophy religion and government — the ideas and forces that permeate and control the lives of men. Hermitage House unknown
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
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
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
19780105041<p>The Franklin Library; 1978. A Limited Edition. 'The 100 Greatest Books of All Time'. Full beige/brown leather binding with gold lettering and stampings on the spine and covers. Orange silk Moire end papers. Attached silk ribbon marker. No dust jacket as published. The translation of Tobias Smollett- with the illustrations of Sylain Sauvage Notes from the Editors included. More photographs on request. Slightly musty smell due to previous storage but in near fine condition. Preowned. No ISBN.</p> The Franklin Library hardcover
10690<p>The Heritage Press Norwalk CT N.D. HC Near Fine with slipcase and Sandglass. The cover is green cloth with the gold fleur-de-lis scroll patterns and the Sylvain Sauvage illustrations.</p> The Heritage Press hardcover
