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Candide

Candide

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Candide

by Voltaire

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  • Hardcover
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Very Good in Good dust jacket; Edges rubbed with some minor loss to gold spine title, jacket presents well in a protector but i
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NY: The Modern Library. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Edges rubbed with some minor loss to gold . spine title, jacket presents well in a protector but is chipped, stained, . and soiled.. 1930. Later Printing. Hardcover. Brown balloon cloth with purple topstain. xiii, 236 pages + 5 page Modern Library titles list. Introduction by Phillip Littell. ML #47. Using the following information from the Toledano ML guide we believe this to be a 1939 printing. Cover #7 (1931-1939) , Kent endpapers, books to #220 Cities of Pain which was first published by ML in 1938, ML Giants to #45 The Story of American Literature which was first published by ML in 1939, and 265 titles listed total on jacket reverse. Jacket style g with large black 95 cent price. A beautiful collectors copy in its Rockwell Kent illustrated dust jacket. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

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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Bookseller
Old Saratoga Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
47655
Title
Candide
Author
Voltaire
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket; Edges rubbed with some minor loss to gold spine title, jacket presents well in a protector but i
Quantity Available
1
Edition
Later Printing
Publisher
The Modern Library
Place of Publication
NY
Date Published
1930
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
Rockwell Kent, Modern Library Editions
Bookseller catalogs
Fiction;

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About Old Saratoga Books

Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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G
Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
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....
Edges
The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Cloth
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
12mo
A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Soiled
Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
Jacket
Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...

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