Candide or the Optimist
by Voltaire
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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The Woodlands, Texas, United States
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About This Item
London: Folio Society. Very Good. 1948. Hardcover. From the biographical note, "Thence in 1758 he moved to nearby Ferney on French soil. Here he wrote a number of works including Candide, farmed his estate, established a watch-making industry, and kept up an enormous correspondence." Marbled boards. Ships same or next business day. Spine is slightly skewed and loose. Normal edge wear. Small bumps on corners and spine ends. Tiny tears on back corners. Light tanning to endpapers and edges of pages. Text is clean. No dust jacket. ; B&W and Color Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 136 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Good Books In The Woods (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 73864
- Title
- Candide or the Optimist
- Author
- Voltaire
- Illustrator
- Kenneth Hobson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- Folio Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1948
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- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Jacket
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- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Marbled boards
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....