Candide [Modern Library No. 47.1]
by VOLTAIRE
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Light soiling to covers, else near fine. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright. Lacking dust jacket.
- Seller
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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. Early ML Printing. Hardcover. Light soiling to covers, else near fine. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright. Lacking dust jacket.. 16mo. 4.25 x 6.625 in. viii, [ii], 347 pp. + adverts. ML Binding Style 3, dark brown 'limp croft leather' (leatherette), with gothic Boni & Liveright device in black on upper cover, gilt title to spine; Brodzky endpapers. North Carolinia historian, scholar, & newspaper man Darley Hiden Ramsey's copy, with his ownership signature to front pastedown. An exceptionally fresh copy of an early ML edition.
Synopsis
Candide, ou l'Optimisme (in French) is a French satire written in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best (1759); Candide: or, The Optimist (1762); and Candide: or, Optimism (1947). The novella begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply optimism) by his tutor, Pangloss.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Irving Book Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 551
- Title
- Candide [Modern Library No. 47.1]
- Author
- VOLTAIRE
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light soiling to covers, else near fine. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright. Lacking dust jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early ML Printing
- Publisher
- Boni and Liveright
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1925
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Irving Book Company
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Asheville, North Carolina
About Irving Book Company
Classical, Catholic, Southern, Photographic, Poetic, Scholarly, and early Modern Library Editions, &c.
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