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Candide.
by de Voltaire, Jean François Marie Arouet. Kent, Rockwell (Illustrator)
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Langley, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Modern Library,, 2002.. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine. A Very Fine copy of the 2002 facsimile edition. Quarto. Ivory gilt stamped and lettered cloth and spine. 111pp, decorated endpapers. Publisher's Note: On August 1, 1925 Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer bought The Modern Library from Boni & Liveright, and the publishing venture that would soon be called Random House was born. The first book ever to be bear the Random House imprint was this edition of Voltaire's CANDIDE, illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Random House marked its fiftieth year with a facsimile edition of CANDIDE, and it is now our pleasure, on the occasion of Random House's seventy-fifth birthday, to bring this beautiful, elegant book to a new generation of readers. Cloth
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- Bookseller
- Lowry-James Rare Prints & Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7115
- Title
- Candide.
- Author
- de Voltaire, Jean François Marie Arouet. Kent, Rockwell (Illustrator)
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing of the First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Modern Library,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 2002.
- Keywords
- candide book illustration and design modern library facsimile edition voltaire Kent, Rockwell Books
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About the Seller
Lowry-James Rare Prints & Books
Biblio member since 2006
Langley, Washington
About Lowry-James Rare Prints & Books
Established in 1986, Lowry-James Rare Prints & Books features original engravings and lithographs from the 17th through the 19th Centuries including original work by John James Audubon, early Natural History Prints, Botany and Horticulture, Maps and Cartography.
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- Quarto
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Facsimile
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- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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