Candide, Or, Optimism

London: The Folio Society. 2011. First edition with these illustrations. First edition with these illustrations. Limited edition. Signed by the illustrator. Original dark red full goatskin leather, titles in gilt to the upper board and spine. Top edge gilt. Grey paper covered slipcase with wraparound title in gilt. Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout by Quentin Blake.… Read more about this item

London; Folio Society, 2011., 2011. Hard Cover. LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY ARTIST. Number 673 in an edition limited to only 1000 copies for sale to members of the Folio Society. Square quarto, pp 205. 18 full page colour plates by Quentin Blake, plus numerous line drawings within text. Full deep maroon Nigerian goatskin with gilt titles to spine and… Read more about this item

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1973. Hardcover. Fine in lightly worn glassine and Fine slipcase with some small white paint specks. May Neama. Quarto (7-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in quarter white cowhide leather and scarlet linen with a gilt-lettered white linen diagonal strip on each cover. Copy #1256 of 1500 illustrated with color plates by May Neama and… Read more about this item

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1973. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine slipcase. May Neama. Quarto (7-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in quarter white cowhide leather and scarlet linen with a gilt-lettered white linen diagonal strip on each cover. Copy #887 of 1500 illustrated with color plates by May Neama and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

Trade paperback, this is a scholarly work offering background and criticism. The text of the satire Candide runs the first 80 pages of this 194-page text. Voltaire's satire skewers religion, theologians, governments, armies, philosophies, and philosophers. Edited by Robert M. Adams, this is a stated first edition. The original story was first published in 1759. There are chips… Read more about this item

Paperback. Very Good.

Hammondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1986. Paperback. AS NEW. Gift quality. English text. 144 pages, 4.5x7.25.25" "Candide was the most brilliant challenge to the idea endemic in Voltaire's day, that 'all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds' ."

London: Penguin, 1947. Later printing. Paperback. Very Good. 50th printing of this trade paperback edition in the Penguin Classics series. Translated from the French by John Butt. A clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers.

London and New York: Nonesuch Press. (1939). Quarter-cloth clocth-backed patterned boards, colour illus, pp xx, 147. Page 48/49 has offesetting otherwise clean and in near-fine condition, in lightly stained but very good original slipcase. Voltaire's classic philosophical satire (first published 1759), with twenty illustrations in colour. 1st thus. Boards in slip-case.

London:: Nonesuch Press,, 1939.. Hardcover.. Pbplishers cloth over decorative boards minor shelf wear. Illustrated in color. Clean and crisp content. No slipcase. Priced to go.

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1977. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Easton Press. Collection's edition bound in General Leather. The book is in full leather with hubbed Spines. Silk ribbon page marker. Part of the " 100 greatest books ever written series" for Easton Press collectors. Includes the Easton Press Book Plate glued to the front… Read more about this item

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1973. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. SIGNED by illustrator May Neama on rear limitation page, #1316 of a limited edition of 1500; very good in cloth boards with leather spine, no jacket as issued; some soiling to boards, minor fraying to one board corner, one set of dirty fingerprints on next to last blank page… Read more about this item

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1978. Hardcover. As New. 9.1x6.1x1.0in. 100 Greatest Books. 215pp 1.37lb 9.1x6.1x1.0in

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1973. Hardcover. About Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. May Neama. Quarto (7-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in quarter white cowhide leather and scarlet linen with a gilt-lettered white linen diagonal strip on each cover. Illustrated with color plates by May Neama. Of a total edition of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist on… Read more about this item

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1977. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. The true Collector's Edition, full leather binding with elaborate gilt decoration on covers and spine. All edge gilt, silk end papers, ribbon marker and nicely printed with clean, bright interior. A lovely edition not to be confused with the faux leather or… Read more about this item

Paperback. Good.

New York: Norton, 1966. 1st edition thus . Soft cover. Near Fine. 8500 shelf. Trade paperback, pictorial orange/white covers. "A new translation/ backgrounds/ criticism". Inked name verso front cover, K. in small circle top pg 69, else clean. With Callot artwork. 194 pgs

LONDON, THE FOLIO SOCIETY, 2011. LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES, THIS BEING NUMBER 972. QUARTO, FINELY BOUND IN FULL NIGERIAN GOATSKIN LEATHER BLOCKED WITH DESIGN BY THE ARTIST QUENTIN BLAKE. NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY QUENTIN BLAKE. WITH A SLIPCASE. A VERY FINE COPY. SCARCE.

Norwalk, Conneticut: The Easton Press. Fine. 1977. Hardcover. Fine or Like New condition. Grey, leather, hardcover copy with gilted page ends, and a ribben bookmark. ; 6 3/4" x 10 1/4"; 131 pages .

Harmondsworth: Penguin. 12mo, 144 pages, not illustrated. Covers creased. Pages browned. Translated by John Butt. . Good. Paperback. Reprint.. 1974.