Candide
by Voltaire, Francoise Marie Arouet De,
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Literary Guild, 1929., 1929. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Rockwell Kent. Quarto, hardcover, Decorative blue cloth with silver stars and lettering on cover. spine sunned else VG. No dj. No marks or writing. Pages beginning to tan at edges. Introduction by Charles Merrill, 1929. 112 pp., First published in 1759 in France, and published by Random House in 1928 in English with Kent's illustrations reproduced here. Includes Crofts Classics laid in, edited by Torrey, 115 pp.
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- Bookseller
- bookwitch
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47666
- Title
- Candide
- Author
- Voltaire, Francoise Marie Arouet De,
- Illustrator
- Rockwell Kent
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- New York: The Literary Guild, 1929.
- Date Published
- 1929
Terms of Sale
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bookwitch
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Concord, California
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- Sunned
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- Quarto
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- Jacket
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