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Candide
by Voltaire, Jean François Marie de; Rockwell Kent
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
New York: Made by Pynson Printers for Random House, 1929. Random House Reprint. Hardcover. Rockwell Kent. 111pp. Quarto [28 cm] Magenta cloth over boards with gilt stamped titles and ornamentation on the spine and front cover. Very good condition. The boards are very slightly concave, the spine ends and corners of the covers are gently bumped, and the underlying boards are just barely peeking through at the foot of the spine and the bottom fore edge corner of the front cover. There is a minor stain on the rear cover. The dust jacket is in poor condition. It is torn in half, and has numerous closed tears and small open tears in the edges and along the folds. The jacket is also mildly soiled and darkened. This book, the first of the Random House Reprints is set by hand in Garamond type and printed on a specially made paper by the Pynson Printers, and contains all the illustrations made by Rockwell Kent for the Random House limited edition of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43538
- Title
- Candide
- Author
- Voltaire, Jean François Marie de; Rockwell Kent
- Illustrator
- Rockwell Kent
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Random House Reprint
- Publisher
- Made by Pynson Printers for Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- Rockwell Kent; Voltaire
Terms of Sale
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We actively purchase and appraise books in all fields.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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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