Author: VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET)
Title: Candide -and- Zadig (Franklin Library Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers Series)
Description: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1977. Hardcover. A deluxe leatherbound reprint edition combining two philosophical novellas of Voltaire, the pen name of François-Marie Arouet. Translated from the French by the noted Scottish novelist and poet Tobias Smollet. With illustrations by Van Kaufman. Includes a portrait of Voltaire by Uldis Klavins near front of volume. Issued as an entry in the publisher's Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers series. One of an unspecified number in a limited edition. --- Bound in full red bonded leather covers with three raised bands on spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges all in bright gilt. Interior leaves printed on high-quality papers. Red silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon placemarker. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- With a hint of sunning to spine and four insignificant scratches to gilding on textblock fore-edge, else a Fine copy: clean, tightly-bound, bright and almost certainly unread.; Tall Octavo (9 to 10 in. tall); (8), 255 pages. Near Fine .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Illustrated Classics >>Fine Bindings
Title: Candide -and- Zadig (Franklin Library Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers Series)
Description: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1977. Hardcover. A deluxe leatherbound reprint edition combining two philosophical novellas of Voltaire, the pen name of François-Marie Arouet. Translated from the French by the noted Scottish novelist and poet Tobias Smollet. With illustrations by Van Kaufman. Includes a portrait of Voltaire by Uldis Klavins near front of volume. Issued as an entry in the publisher's Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers series. One of an unspecified number in a limited edition. --- Bound in full red bonded leather covers with three raised bands on spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges all in bright gilt. Interior leaves printed on high-quality papers. Red silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon placemarker. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- With a hint of sunning to spine and four insignificant scratches to gilding on textblock fore-edge, else a Fine copy: clean, tightly-bound, bright and almost certainly unread.; Tall Octavo (9 to 10 in. tall); (8), 255 pages. Near Fine .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Illustrated Classics >>Fine Bindings
Price: US$ 24.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 86908
- Book number: 86908