Candide, and Other Writings (Modern Library #47.3)
by VOLTAIRE
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. [c.1958]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition offering Voltaire's satirical 1759 novella, as well as writings in other genres: fiction (including "Zadig"), poetry, history, literary criticism, philosophy, dialogues, letters and other pieces. Edited, and with introduction by Haskell M. Block. Volume in jacket with a front panel illustration by Rockwell Kent. --- In Toledano spine 8 / grey cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 380 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1958 (though 1956 date appears in book). ML #47.3. --- With the beginnings of a split near title page (which doesn't affect the stability of the binding), some dulling to cover gilding, else a clean, unmarked, tightly-bound copy. Unclipped dust jacket ($1.65) with chafing to extremities but remaining mostly intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xxiii, 576, [8, ads] pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88219
- Title
- Candide, and Other Writings (Modern Library #47.3)
- Author
- VOLTAIRE
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1958]
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