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1824réf. 23898Paris: Delangle Frères 1824. Later printing. Hardcover. fair. Octavo. Half leather over marbled paper covered boards with gold lettering on spines. marbled endpapers. Fascinating edition of the works of the most famous French Enlightenment writer essayist and philosopher of all times. It includes: Vol. 1 : Biographie. Vol.2 : Mémoires. Vol. 3-12 : Théâtre. Vol. 13 : La Henriade. Vol. 14 : La Pucelle. Vol. 15-18 : Poésie. Vol. 19-24 : Essai sur les moeurs. Vol. 25-27 : Le Siècle de Louis XIV. Vol. 28-29 : Le Siècle de Louis XV. Vol. 30 : Histoire de Charles XII. Vol. 31 : Histoire de Russie. Vol. 32-33 : Annales de l'Empire. Vol. 34 : Histoire du Parlement de Paris. Vol. 35-37 : Mélanges historiques. Vol. 38-40 : Politique et législation. Vol. 41-42 : Physique. Vol. 43-48 : Philosophie. Vol. 49-50 : Dialogues. Vol. 51-58 : Dictionnaire philosophique petite perte à la coiffe du volume 54. Vol. 59-60 : Romans. Vol. 61 : Facéties. Vol. 62-64 : Mélanges littéraires. Vol. 65-67 : Commentaires. Vol. 68-95 : Correspondance. Vol. 96-97 : Tableau analytique. Some edge wear on bindings with joints edges and corners partly rubbed. A few volumes have their head or tail of spine chipped. Volume 97 has a different binding and is from a different publisher Beaudouin Frères. Only volume 64 is in poor condition with its first 50 pages missing and heavy worming affecting text. Sporadic foxing throughout. Text in French. Bindings in overall fair to good interior in good condition. Delangle Frères hardcover books
1928réf. 1393977London UK: John Lane The Bodley Head LTD 1928. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xxxiii 220 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Black spine with blue lettering and motif. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering has mild shelving wear. Boards have fraying along the rear head edge mild bending wear along the corners and mild fraying along the front tail fore corner and rear tail edge. Textblock has stains on pages xxxiv and 1 and 128-129 splitting along the gutter between pages 33-128 and mild age toning. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1393977. Special Collections - Downstairs. John Lane The Bodley Head LTD hardcover books
1822réf. 290382London: Printed for John Miller and W. Wright 1822. Full Leather. Good binding. With 59 full page plates in Vol. I 9 of which are duplicates on poorer paper and 58 full page plates in Vol. II 9 of which are duplicates; with 25 white Fine Paper engravings pasted down in Vol. I and 25 in Vol. II; with 11 gray Papier de Chine engravings pasted down in Vol. I and 11 in Vol. II. Most of the engravings are illustrations of the various scenes with a few portrait plates; all of the Papier de Chine illustrations are small engraved illustrations meant for the start of each canto and are facing duplicates on Fine Paper. Hinges reinforced by a conservator with Japanese tissue paper. Signed full red morroco binding by Matthews; with gilt lettering and decorations. Marbled endpapers and gilt dentelles. Top edge gilt. Good binding. Printed for John Miller and W. Wright unknown books
1948réf. 6040Mount Vernon New York: Peter Pauper Press n.d. but 1948. Very Good. 26 cm; 158 pages. Printed in red and black ink. Tinted illustrations by Fritz Kredel. Bound in decorated paper-covered boards. Paper title label on spine. No slipcase. Title label discolored and slightly frayed at one edge. Covers lightly toned. Peter Pauper Press hardcover books
1767réf. 140947325London: Printed for J. Almon 1767. First Edition. Near Fine. First English-language edition of Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria's treatise on criminal justice reform with an added commentary by Voltaire. xii 179 lxxix pp. Bound in full contemporary mottled calf laced in boards. Morocco title label gilt tooling to spine and board edges all edges speckled red. Near Fine with light wear to covers boards slightly splayed joints worn but sound. Light toning and scattered foxing throughout more pronounced in first and last few pages. Discoloration from binder's glue to endpapers author's name penciled to front pastedown math equation penciled to back pastedown. A beautiful copy of the influential Enlightenment classic from the collection of scholar and bibliophile Arnold Meadowcroft Muirhead with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Rare. Printed for J. Almon unknown books
1952réf. 624996Paris: Gibert Jeune Librairie d'Amateurs 1952. Softcover. Good. Limited edition. Illustrations by Umberto Brunelleschi. Small octavo. 160pp. Containing reproduction of the original 1933 titillating illustrations in a reduced format the 16 full-page color plates and the 23 black-and-white tailpieces. Owner name penned neatly inside wrapper signatures coming loose lacking the last page and rear wrapper lacking the spine some pages unopened thus a fait to good only copy lacking the original glassine dust jacket. One of 3000 numbered copies. Beautiful plates. Gibert Jeune Librairie d'Amateurs unknown books
1962réf. 1413067London: Oxford University Press 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 10 181 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket and Very Good plus TLS. In full brown cloth binding. Jacket is green and white spine sunned to tan with black and green lettering. Jacket is wrapped in an archival mylar sleeve. Jacket is lightly age toned with rubbing wear along edges and at the corners. Wrinkling at head and tail of spine. Price unclipped: "25s. net". Boards show light rubbing along edges and at the fore corners. Head and tail of spine are lightly bumped. Text block is lightly age toned. Interior clean. Inscribed to Susan Sheehan here as Susan Black by Besterman on half title page: "For Susan Black / with love / Th. B.". TLS is housed in its original envelope. Letter is folded into fourths and discusses the state of the Library of Congress potential travel plans and an upcoming work of Besterman's. Signed "Th." in blue ink. Shelved in Room F. . Inscribed by Theodore Besterman to Susan Sheehan here addressed under the name Susan Black "with love" and accompanied by a typed letter signed "Th." this copy records a personal association between Sheehan and one of the major Voltaire scholars of the twentieth century. Besterman a bibliographer editor and scholar became the central English-language figure in modern Voltaire studies: he founded what became the Voltaire Foundation edited Voltaire's vast correspondence and directed the Institut et Musée Voltaire at Les Délices Voltaire's former residence in Geneva. Voltaire Essays and Another published by Oxford University Press in 1962 belongs to this period of intense scholarly activity. Second Story Books is honored to offer this item from the personal collection of Neil and Susan Sheehan. Neil Sheehan 1936-2021 and Susan Sheehan born 1937 were a distinguished husband-and-wife team whose careers helped define American literary journalism in the second half of the twentieth century. Neil Sheehan a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times is best known for his role in bringing the Pentagon Papers to public attention and for his landmark book "A Bright Shining Lie" while Susan Sheehan built a parallel reputation as a leading voice at The New Yorker crafting deeply reported narrative nonfiction on subjects ranging from mental health to social institutions earning her own Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Their longstanding ties to major publications particularly The New Yorker placed them at the center of an influential cultural and intellectual network and the books from their library carry added provenance through this close connection to the magazine's editorial and artistic community. 1413067. Special Collections - Upstairs. Oxford University Press hardcover books
1901réf. 13129The Works of Voltaire / A Contemporary Version with notes / by Tobias Smollett revised and modernized; new translations by William F. Fleming and an introduction by Oliver H. G. Leigh ; a critique and biography by the Rt. Hon. John Morley E. R. Dumont 1901 42 volumes complete a vg to near fine set bound in half leather with raised spines with marbled boards and matching marbled end-papers. 1/100 sets so labeled as the Les Delices Edition. Profusely illustrated. Formerly the set owned by 19th century Grand Rapids Lumber Baron Henry G. Dykhouse with his bookplates pn the front paste-downs. E. R. Dumont hardcover books
1774réf. 02594THEATRE DE P. CORNEILLE AVEC COMMENTAIRES ET AUTRES MORCEAUX INTERESSANS Geneva 1774 the revised edition with augmentations 8 volumes complete occasional moisture stain sometimes quite obvious sometimes quite faint to the lower fore edge corner sections / tips of some of the leaves of several volumes never entering the text some wear to the corner tips and edges of the boards slight wear to some of the spine extremities some rubbing to the boards else a tight vg set bound in what appears to be an early 19th century binding of 1/2 leather and marbled / spotted boards with raised spines of 6 compartments 4 decorative and one each with red and black leather labels the red bearing the title with the black revealing the volume number. Pierre Corneille was a most important player in the history of French theater writing 32 plays between 1629 and 1684. These 8 volumes are also enhanced with 34 engraved plates by Hubert Gravelot. Text in French of course. N. A. hardcover books
1927réf. 09463THE PRINCESS OF BABYLON The Nonesuch Press 1927 vellum spine lightly soiled else a tight fine copy in the publishers original binding. Illustrated by Thomas Lowinsky. 1/1500 copies. The Nonesuch Press hardcover books
1968réf. 1389556Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press 1968. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavos two volumes. In Very Good condition with Very Good minus dust jackets. Dust jackets with moderate age toning; light shelf wear to edges of dust jacket and light marking to surfaces of jackets. Light rubbing to lower edges of text blocks; top edges of text blocks dusty. Volumes 81 and 82 of the Institut et Musée Voltaire series THE COMPLETE WORKS OF VOLTAIRE. Shelved in Room X. 1389556. Special Collections - Downstairs. University of Toronto Press hardcover books
réf. MA07B-04499La Société Littéraire Typographique. Collectible - Very Good. Kehl Germany: La Société Littéraire Typographique 1785. No additional printings. 70-volume set with 69 of 70 volumes present. 8vo full-leather hardcovers in early mottled brown leather. A thin blind-stamped line outlines each board and the board edges are decorated with a thin gilt line. Five raised bands to spine recorated with small vertical lines. Gilt devices of flora enclosed in a box to the first fourth fifth and sixth compartments. Author and series volume number gilt stamped in a gilt box on a brown leather label to second compartment. Work title and part gilt stamped in a gilt box on red leather label to third compartment. These labels have been reversed on Volume 30 with the author and volume on red in the second compartment and title and part number on brown in the third compartment. Page edges speckled and endpapers marbled with swirls of pink blue yellow and white. French. A frontispiece engraving in volume one after the painting by Nicolas de Largillière depicting Voltaire at 24 years old; another in volume 16 after the portrait by Maurice Quentin de La Tour; a frontis diagram of a battlefield in volume 24; 14 pages of plates at the rear of volume 31; frontis engraving of a marble bust to volume 32. Very good. Volume 28 lacking. Spine tips slightly worn on many volumes and corners gently bumped and rubbed; the leather has been eroded very slightly at some corners and a few volumes are rather more edgeworn with scrapes to board edges. Top fore-corner of volume 50 front board worn. Spines a bit rubbed and creased with some volumes clearly better loved than others; the high points of the raised bands have been somewhat more rubbed in a few spots. The volume number label has been detached from volume 7 and laid in and the work title label has been chipped on volume 2 detached from volume 24 and laid in and lost from volume 32. Some joints have very small cracks at the tips but the leather remains firm and supple. Volume 35 front joint cracked. A few volumes have suffered some scrapes to the boards a gouge to the front of volume 25 and there is a very small spot of worming each to the front board of volume 17 and the rear of volume 18 but the leather is otherwise smooth. Page edges slightly toned; dampstaining and spotting to the edges of several volumes. Volume 70 spine cracked and pages 165-172 loose but don't appear ever to have been sewn in. Some very occasional isolated spots of foxing throughout but interiors are clean bright and very near fine. The attached rubbon bookmarks are present and intact in almost all volumes and although the exposed tips have faded that portion of the ribbon inside of the books remains a vibrant salmon pink. The gilt too is bright and has been rubbed away only partially on the raised bands; it remains fully present everywhere else. The bindings are tight and hinges firm and a few pages remain unopened. An incredible copy of the famous unexpurgated Kehl Voltaire printed in Germany in order to escape the censorship of pre-revolutionary France. Inquire if you need further information. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES. La Société Littéraire Typographique hardcover books
1975réf. 122754New York: Random 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine. Reprint. Near fine. Pen marks on top corner on front endpaper. Random hardcover books
réf. 158783New York: Heritage Press No Date. Hardcover. Very Good. Later. Fine condition hardcover. Later Printing. With Sandglass in a Very good slipcase with a little wear around opening edges. Heritage Press hardcover books
1929réf. 211325New York: Random House 1929. Very Good. Later. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Very good minus. Water stained on covers and spine. Former owner's signature. Random House unknown books
1986réf. 202777New York: Penguin 1986. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint. About very good in wrappers. Clean text is yellowed paper covers are clean with mild wear& discoloring. Penguin unknown books
1900réf. 211224New York: Modern Library 1900. Very Good. Very good. Book is rubbed at spine ends and corners corners bumped foredges soiled pages yellowed. Modern Library unknown books
1983réf. 120092New York: Bantam 1983. Softcover. Very Good. Rep. Very good in wrappers. paperback Yellowing cover and pages. Slight warping. Bantam unknown books
1939réf. 226147England: Nonesuch Press 1939. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good plus. Hardcover lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners has wax paper type dust jacket that is browned. In slipcase in very good plus condition lightly rubbed at corners and edges. Nonesuch Press hardcover books
1956réf. 187673New York: Modern Library 1956. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Good with some fraying at the spine ends and corners covers have browned hinges cracked. Modern Library hardcover books
1928réf. 322184New York: Random House 1928. hardcover. fine. Kent Rockwell. Illustrated throughout by Rockwell Kent. Slim 4to handsomely rebound in full beige morocco brown leather spine label and gilt decoration on spine and covers. New York: Random House 1928. A fine copy. Limited Edition one of 1470 copies signed by Rockwell Kent. Random House unknown books
1880réf. 48476Garnier Freres 1880. VOLTAIRE. PRECIS DU SIECLE DE LOUIS XV ET HISTOIRE DU PARLEMENT DE PARIS. Paris: Garnier Freres 1880. 12mo. tan quarter-calf leather & marbled boards stamped in gilt. Later Edition. Very Good bit of edgewear some darkening spine. $50.00. Garnier Freres unknown books
1759réf. 752Genève Geneva: Cramer 1759. First Edition. 3 vols. in one 12mo 164 x 100mm pp. 2 291 1; 133 1 35 1. First printing of the great 18th century philosophical narrative with all the points correct. Including the 3 usual cancels the right title page ornament repeated pages 193 and 266 the misprints of “que ce ce fut” page 103 line 4 and “précisément” page 125 line 4 the correction removing a paragraph break page 31 the rewritten lines about the Lisbon earthquake page 41 etc. Contemporary full calf red calf label rebacked with the original spine saved and laid down recornered marbled endpapers gilt rubbed inner paper hinges strengthened old ink signatures on the endpaper and front blank tiny signature on the title page one tissue strengthened tear at the bottom of A2 touching the last 3 lines of text without any loss otherwise internally quite nice clean and very good. Bound without N7 a blank and N8 a notice to the binder as is usual agreeing in all respects to what you would have received if you had purchased a copy in sheets on publication day then bought the sequels and then handed them over to the most local Swiss bindery. Ref: PMM 204. There were 18 editions of Candide in 1759. It took 221 years for a clear and convincing bibliography to first sort them out and then got accepted and once accepted our real 1st edition was confirmed as rare. In the last 15 years however that bibliographical data has been more widely circulated and several 1st editions that weren’t on the original 22–copy census have come into market. It is still scarce more so in a contemporary binding. Candide bides as the epitomic philosophical fable of the French Enlightenment and the genotype of irony without exaggeration and though it’s laced with more salt than the postwar streets of Carthage it repeatedly tolls a reminder that light hearts live long. Most importantly Candide remains remarkably relevant when examined through contemporary frameworks functioning as an incisive proto-postcolonial text that anticipates modern discourse on global inequality systems of oppression and the limitations of Enlightenment rationality. The novel's scathing portrayal of slavery conquest and religious persecution resonates with intersectional analyses that recognize how power structures interlock across racial gender and economic dimensions. The savage irony throughout the text dismantles not just philosophical optimism but also European exceptionalism exposing the hypocrisy of colonial enterprises and religious institutions alike. The narrative's episodic structure—with its global movements between Europe South America and the Ottoman Empire—invites discussions of transnationalism and diasporic experience while Candide's concluding retreat to cultivate his garden has been reinterpreted by ecocritical scholars as both an acknowledgment of environmental interdependence and a potentially problematic withdrawal from systems-level political engagement. “Do you believe” said Candide “that men have always massacred each other as they do to-day that they have always been liars cheats traitors ingrates brigands idiots thieves scoundrels gluttons drunkards misers envious ambitious bloody–minded calumniators debauchees fanatics hypocrites and fools” “Do you believe” said Martin “that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they have found them” –Voltaire Candide. Cramer unknown books
1922réf. 198963London: Routledge 1922. Hardcover. Good Boards are moderately edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; board corners are slightly bowed in; textblock edges are toned and lightly foxed; interior is clean but does have occasional smudging; binding appears solid. Odle Alan. Green and brown boards with mounted title card on the spine; XVI 223 pp.; richly illustrated. Gorgeous drawings by Alan Odle. Routledge hardcover books
1929réf. 189801New York: Random House 1929. Hardcover. VG/Good dustjacket has small tears and nicks. Tan boards with gilt illustration lettering and decoration. Decorative end papers. 111 pp. Illustrations by Rockwell Kent. A reprint edition of the book published in 1928 in a limited edition. ""This book the first of the Random House reprints . contains all the illustrations made by Rockwell Kent for the Random House limited edition of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight." Random House hardcover books
