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2011Best.-Nr. mon0000084864The Folio Society 2011. Hardcover. Like New. in x in x in. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. The Folio Society hardcover
2011Best.-Nr. Q-2035866014European Schoolbooks Ltd 2011-01-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! European Schoolbooks Ltd paperback
1922Best.-Nr. 2091202133204413Paul Steegemann 1922. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Paul Steegemann paperback
1981Best.-Nr. 127386Oxford University Press. Very Good. 1981. Hardcover. 3876827205 . 7.8 X 5.1 X 0.9 inches . Oxford University Press hardcover
1998Best.-Nr. Q-0312148542Bedford/St. Martin's 1998-09-15. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Bedford/St. Martin's paperback
1974Best.-Nr. SBBI-mon0000017711Hodder Arnold H&S 1974. hardcover. Acceptable. Stains to cover page edges and/or pages inside. Writing/highlighting/drawing/colouring present inside or on cover. Please see the condition note after this for details if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining water damage writing missing dustjacket etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Hodder Arnold H&S hardcover
Best.-Nr. 2277300314.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1975Best.-Nr. 8194New York: Random House 1975. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 11 1/2" X 7 3/4". 111pp. Very mild wear to red cloth over boards with light rubbing to covers and edges. Bump to tail of spine. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Mild wear to clipcase with rubbing and toning to covers and edges. This special edition of Candide contains all of the original illustrations including specially designed chapter heads as well as hundreds of miniature drawings interspersed by the illustrator within paragraphs themselves. 11 1/2" X 7 3/4". 111pp. Very mild wear to red cloth over boards with light rubbing to covers and edges. Bump to tail of spine. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Mild wear to clipcase with rubbing and toning to covers and edges. This special edition of Candide contains all of the original illustrations including specially designed chapter heads as well as hundreds of miniature drawings interspersed by the illustrator within paragraphs themselves. Random House hardcover books
Best.-Nr. ria9781774378557_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Candide is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism or simply "optimism" by his mentor Professor Pangloss. Voltaire describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle followed by C hardcover
Best.-Nr. 1774378558.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1892Best.-Nr. 013222-11Dentu 1892. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Robustly Bounded And Unmarked In Quarter Leather With Marbled Boards. 206Pp. Illustrated. No Wear To Gilt Decorated Spine Where The Title Is Bright But Minor Wear To Edges Of Boards And Slight Bumping To Bottom Corner. A Charming Little Volume. Dentu hardcover
1759Best.-Nr. 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
19528vo., First Edition thus, text in French, with title in red and black, coloured title-vignette, and 16 fine coloured plates and 23 illustrations in monochrome by Brunelleschi; handsomely bound in brown crushed half morocco, marbled boards, back with four raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, gilt top, marbled endpapers, yellow silk marker, bevelled edges, uncut, ORIGINAL COLOURED AND ILLUSTRATED WRAPPERS PRESERVED, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. EDITION LIMITED TO 3000 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 2293).
1930Best.-Nr. 019495Paris: Editions Nilsson 1930. First Edition. Wraps. Foxing throughout not affecting the illustrations. The fragile illustrated paper dustwrapper is intact but for small chips on the spine and has neatly detached from the book. Very Good. Octavo 6-3/4" x 9-1/8" in stiff paper binding with a thin brown paper cover with watercolor decorations on front and rear panels as well as the spine. The French text is accompanied by 6 hand-colored pochoir plates by Robert Polack on the same thin paper tipped in. Editions Nilsson paperback books
1975In 4 (31.5x21.5) legatura in tela con sovracoperta rossa, carta pesante con barbe. pp.235. cofanetto rigido. Ottimo
1952Best.-Nr. 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
1952Best.-Nr. 316680Paris: Gibert Jeune Librairie d'Amateurs 1952. Softcover. Near Fine. Limited edition. Small octavo. Illustrations by Umberto Brunelleschi. Some toning with wear to the spine ends near fine in pictorial wrappers with very good chipped and torn original glassine dustwrapper. One of 3000 numbered copies. Includes titillating illustrations throughout: 16 color and 23 black and white. Gibert Jeune Librairie d'Amateurs unknown books
1930Best.-Nr. L046960Editions Nilsson 1930. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" 217 4 pages plates. Text in French. Illustrated edition of the 3 short novels; notable for the tipped-in pochoir stencilled watercolor illustrations on glassine. Date is conjectural not dated in book. Few small chips browning and slight rubbing to color pictorial glassine jacket; inner upper hinge starting; slight browning to plates generally unaffecting images; slight internal browning to edges.Polack Robert illustrator; 6 Color Illustrations / Plates. Editions Nilsson paperback
1759Best.-Nr. elala1495np Paris: 1759. 1759. 12mo. pp. 237 3. contemporary calf gilt back spine ends worn. Published the same year as the first. Voltaires witty and devastating attack on philosophical and religious optimism is generally regarded as his most masterful composition. Published surreptitiously no less than seventeen different printings and editions appeared in 1759. Bengesco 1440. Martin 59.25. cfCioranescu 64321. cfQuérard X 323. cfPrinting and the Mind of Man 204. BOUND WITH: POPE Alexander 1688-1744. Essai Sur LHomme Traduit de lAnglois en François Édition revûe par le Traducteur Second Édition. 12mo. pp. 2 p.l. vii-xxxvi 189 3privilege. woodcut ornaments & title vignette. Lausanne: Marc Michel Bousquet & Compagnie 1752. np [Paris]: 1759. unknown
1946Best.-Nr. 118609Paris : Editions Jules Tallandier 1946. reliure d'éditeur. VOLTAIRE.Candide ou l’optimisme. Préface de Francisque Sarcey. Illustrations de Andrien Moreau. Collection Les chefs-d’oeuvre de l’esprit. Paris Editions Jules Tallandier1946 255x175mmXVI - 174 pages controle effectué: complet des 10 planches n/b sous serpentines illustrations n/b in-texte reliure d'éditeur. Demi-basane à coins riche ornementations dorés au dos étiquette de titre plats papier marbré tranche supérieure dorée couvertures conservées. Très bel exemplaire. No hidden customs fees for orders shipped to the U.S.A with a value of up to 800 USD PDDP shipping we pay the VAT in advance Editions Jules Tallandier unknown
Best.-Nr. 5792280Editions de la Sirene . This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Re-bound by library. Traduit de l'Allemand de Mr. le Docteur Ralph. 255pgs. c.1900. Medium 8vo. Brown library cloth with gilt lettering on backstrip. Exterior worn with some fraying and small tears. Rear hinges split. Title page secure neatly with clear tape. Light chipping to a few pages including half title page and title page. Pages are secure and quite clean with light foxing. Illustrated and contains a couple of plates. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item450grams ISBN: Editions de la Sirene hardcover
Best.-Nr. 0844210765New. paperback. New. Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back. paperback
Best.-Nr. 3563277753.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 1023985624.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1921Best.-Nr. AQ33882Paris: Éditions Jules Tallandier 1921. 4 xvi 2 174pp 4. Title in red and black. With 10 plates and numerous illustrations in the text by Adrein Moreau. Bound in later purple half-morocco marbled paper boards lettered in gilt to spine stamp-signed with gilt omega symbol and dated in blind 1969 to rear turn-in. Original publisher's printed wrappers bound in. Spine sunned. Together with: LAFAYETTE Madame de. La princesse de clèves. Paris. A. Ferroud 1925. Limited edition of 1225 copies of which this is number 353. 4 220pp 2. With numerous coloured illustrations in the text seven full-page. Bound in later dark-green half-morocco marbled paper boards lettered in gilt to spine T.E.G. stamp-signed with gilt omega symbol and dated in blind 1969 to rear turn-in. Original publisher's printed wrappers bound in. Inked inscription of Rosemary Gaisford to front blank fly-leaf. A trifle rubbed. And: LOTI Pierre. Pêcheur d'Islande. Paris. Librairie Hachette 1928. 271pp 3. Bound in later dark-green half-morocco marbled paper boards lettered in gilt and blind to spine T.E.G. stamp-signed in blind with omega symbol and dated in blind '70' to rear turn-in. Original publisher's printed wrappers bound in. Inked inscription of Rosemary Walker to front blank fly-leaf. And: MAUPASSANT Guy de. Contes choisis. Stockholm. Jan Förlag 1946. 364pp. Bound in later burgundy half-morocco decorated paper boards T.E.G. stamp-signed in blind with omega symbol and dated in blind '70' to rear turn-in. A collection of four choice copies of French classics handsomely bound by an anonymous artisan mysteriously identified only by the Greek character omega. . 8vo. Éditions Jules Tallandier hardcover
