Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Description: 111, (1)pp. Illus. 4to. Silk over boards (spine detached). Printed on specially made paper, this reprint contains all the illustrations by the artist for the Random House limited edition of 1928.
Seller: Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA), Charlestown, MA, U.S.A.
Voltaire, Jean Francois Marie Arouet de. Candide. Random House, New York, 1930.
Price: US$12.50 + shipping
Description: 8 vo; mauve boards with gilt front board & spine lettering; biographical note by Charles Edmund Merrill; 112 pp; b/w illust. throughout. very good - no slip case; repaired spine looseness; minor rubbing to board edges; light soiling to boards; all else-clean, tight, & attractive. 0.0
Seller: Rosebud Books, golconda, IL, U.S.A.
Voltaire. Candide. Random House, 1930.
Price: US$18.70 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 112pp. Illus. Contains all of the illustrations made by Rockwell Kent for the Random House limited edition of 1928. Handset in Garamond type and printed on a specially made paper by the Payson Press. Some light dampstain. Small chip at the top of the spine.Some minor to the covers.
Seller: Anthology Booksellers, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
VOLTAIRE, Jean Francois Marie Arouet de. CANDIDE. Random House, New York, 1930.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarto, 111 pages, violet cloth, some sunning, tender front hinge; ex libris Chicagoan Louis Edward Tilden, with a bookplate designed by Ralph Fletcher Seymour. Signed by Rockwell Kent on the free endpaper ( Rare thus ! ). This was the first book published by Random House, whose logo was designed by Kent. This edition has an additional 3-page Bibliographical Note by Charles Edmund Merrill, Jr., in 1929 explaining that this reprint edition has all of Kent's illustrations in the RH edition, with some minor changes in the translation from the French. "For the optimistic, innocent Candide, and his equally guileless if more worldly-wise mentor, Dr. Pangloss, and their delicious adventures, still command our attention. The folly of philosophic and religious optimism is displayed with a vigour and wit that carries the reader away. Irony without exaggeration, a perfect restraint in its admirable humour, a gift for the 'hrowaway line' ('pour encourager les autres' is a classic example); all these show Voltaire's style and originality at their incomparable best --PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN, 204."
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Voltaire. Candide. Random House, NY, 1930.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: spine faded, front hinge starting,
Seller: Robert S. Brooks, Bookseller, Bristol, WI, U.S.A.
Jean Francois marie Arouet de Voltaire. Candide. Random House, New York, 1930.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Original publisher's quarter cream vellum over brown cloth with heavy stock endpapers. The first trade publication of a work previously available only in the scarce, expensive limited edition. A very well preserved, clean and unmarked copy with all the Rockwell Kent plates.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Voltaire. Candide. Random House and Pynson Printers, 1930.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Reprint edition from 1930 with a total split in the front board that needs repair. Glued to the verso of the cover is a lengthy typed letter dated August 14,1936 signed by Rockwell Kent addressed to Oliver Hinsdell at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in support of his daughter Kathleen seeking advice in a possible career in the movie industry. A charming letter from a father clearly very proud of his daughter. A decent copy of a book in need of repair with a warm and heartfelt letter by The illustrator in support of his daughter.
Seller: Ink, Portland, OR, U.S.A.