Candide
by Voltaire
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394499034
- ISBN 13
- 9780394499031
- Seller
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1975. Cloth, 111 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Edition of 10,000 copies. Issued in a slipcase. First published, 1928. Tight, clean copy. Boards in excellent condition, clean edges. Fine slipcase. An attractive copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. A landmark work of publishing history: this is the first book to bear the Random House imprint. With 110 illustrations by Rockwell Kent. Reissued on the 50th anniversary of Random House.. Hardcover. Fine. Illus. by Kent, Rockwell. 4to. Facsimile Reprint.
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
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 031700
- Title
- Candide
- Author
- Voltaire
- Illustrator
- Kent, Rockwell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394499034
- ISBN 13
- 9780394499031
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Size
- 4to
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Genre & Subject / Fantasy & Illustration; Illustrated Books;
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- Reprint
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- Fine
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- Tight
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- Facsimile
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