Candide
by Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet De
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). It 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 mentor, Pangloss.
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Candide: Or Optimism
by Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
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Condition: Good; Light edgewear to boards; very small exposure of netting inside 1st page. small light markings 3rd page otherwise very good condition. Interior clean copy. Translated by Richard Aldington, with an introduction by Paul Morand, twenty colour illustrated plates illustrated by Sylvain Sauvage. Gilt lettering on the spine. Blue patterned covers Item Price
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Candide; or The Optimist
by Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
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Condition: Good in Poor DJ; edge-wear to the boards. Marbled boards with black cloth spine and gilt spine lettering. DJ shows wear and tear. The interior is clean without markings. Minor age tanning 1st and the last page. Fore-edges browned and foxed. Illustrated with seven coloured plates and line drawings in text by Kenneth Hobson.
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Candide
by Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de
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- 1985
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Inky Parrot Press, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good ; Very Good Slipcase. 1985 Inky Parrot Press, Oxford, UK. Limited Edition of 360 numbered copies, of which this is number 59. Signed by illustrator on limitation page. Illustrated by Wilton Priestner. Oversize hardcover has mustard paper-covered boards with black spine lettering and cover decorations. Illustrated endpapers. Black and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Candide
by Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de
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- 1930
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New York: Willilams, Belasco and Meyers, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket/No Dustjacket. Illustrated by Blaine, Mahlon. Pages clean except for a small bookplate on the front endpaper and a touch of age-toning throughout; binding is secure, though with net showing between some signatures; full black cloth binding bears a slight fold along the spine, some… Read more about this item Item Price
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Candide
by VOLTAIRE, Francois Marie Arouet de
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New York: Random House, 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine. Facsimile reprint. Trade issue. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Quarto. A darkened spine with spotting else about near fine in a near fine slipcase with some toning. One of 10,000 copies reprinted on rag French paper and slipcased for Random House's fiftieth anniversary. Item Price
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Candide
by VOLTAIRE, Francois Marie Arouet de
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New York: Random House, 1975. Hardcover. Fine. Facsimile reprint. Trade issue. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Quarto. A darkened spine else about fine in a near fine slipcase with some toning. One of 10,000 copies reprinted on rag French paper and slipcased for Random House's fiftieth anniversary. Item Price
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Candide
by Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de
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London and New York: Nonesuch. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Sauvage, Sylvain. Beautiful copy of the Heritage/Nonesuch Candide, with delicate tinted illustrations from Sylvain Sauvage. Heritage Club Sandglass laid in. Book fine in blue and white fleur-de-lis cloth boards, plain cardboard slipcover shows signs of wear but is intact. No date, circa 1940.
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Candide
by VOLTAIRE, Francois Marie Arouet de
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New York: Random House, 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition thus. Facsimile reprint. Presentation issue. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Quarto. A darkened spine else near fine in a near fine slipcase with some toning. One of 10,000 copies reprinted on rag French paper and slipcased for Random House's fiftieth anniversary. Item Price
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Candide
by VOLTAIRE, Francois Marie Arouet de
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New York: Random House, 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Facsimile reprint. Presentation issue. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Quarto. A darkened spine else near fine in a near fine slipcase with some toning. One of 10,000 copies reprinted on rag French paper and slipcased for Random House's fiftieth anniversary. Item Price
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Candide
by Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de
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- 1975
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New York: Random House, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Kent, Rockwell. Special facsimile edition published to celebrate Random House 50th anniversary. 111pp. Orange cloth variant stamped in gold on the front and the spine. With 110 illustrations by Rockwell Kent. Two tiny tears to corner of pages 57 and 59 else a fine copy in fine pictorial slipcase.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Candide
by VOLTAIRE, Francois Marie Arouet de
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- 1930
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NY:: Illustrated Editions Company,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1930. Hardcover. Translated from the French. No statement of printing. Previous owner's initials on front free endpaper, else very good in a very good (minor edge wear with a few small chips) dust jacket. . Item Price
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Candide
by Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de
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- 1936
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New York: Halcyon House, 1936. Hardcover. Very good condition/good. Rockwell Kent. Folio 111p., illus. by Rockwell Kent
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Candide
by Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de
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- 1929
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New York: Random House, 1929. Hardcover. Fair condition, binding worn, spine torn at both ends. Rockwell Kent. Folio 111p., illus. by Rockwell Kent
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Candide : Or Optimism
by De Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet
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- 1929
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New York: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. Translated from the French by Richard Aldington. 20 illustrations in full color. Boards have a navy fluer de lis pattern, lightly worn. Pages are clean, text is unmarked, binding is tight.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Sauvage, Sylvain. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Item Price
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Candide; or, Optimism. Translated by Richard Aldington with an Introduction by Anatole Broyard
by Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de
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- 1973
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Limited Editions Club, 1973. Hardcover. Like New. in x in x in. Unread. Limited, numbered edition, this being book number 179. Signed by the illustrator. No markings in book. Binding is tight. There is a round, perhaps bookplate, on front free page that has 3 initials. Slipcase as some rubbing to covers and a bump to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Candide; or, Optimism. Translated by Richard Aldington with an Introduction by Anatole Broyard
by Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de
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- 1973
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1973. Hardcover. Very good condition in slipcase. May Neama. 123p., illus. One of 1500 copies & signed by the illustrator. LEC information laid in.
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Candide
by Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de
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- 1977
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- Leather
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Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press. As New with No dust jacket as issued. 1977. Collector's Edition. First Printing. Leather. Publisher's full grey leather, spine in three compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in one compartment, gilt tooling in remainder, gilt tooling on covers, a.e.g., moire silk endpapers, silk ribbon marker bound in. Translated from the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Candide; L'Ingenu; L'Homme Aux 40 Ecus (Bibliotheque De Cluny)
by Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet De (Pierre Grimal, Ed.)
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- 1961
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Paris, France: Librairie Armand Colin, 1961. Trade Paperback. Very Good/Near Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 280, (3) pp. Text in French. Previous owner name on the front free endpaper; the upper 1/2" of the spine covering is torn. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean. The… Read more about this item Item Price
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Candide
by De Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet
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- 1937
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Tolar, Texas, USA
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New York: Halcyon House, 1937. Boards have rubbed edges, light dampstains. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. . Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Libris. Item Price
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Candide
by Francois Marie Arouet De Voltaire
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- 1939
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Seattle, Washington, USA
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Nonesuch Press, 1939. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Item Price
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