Candide New No owner’s signatures

No owner’s signatures

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis First edition

A few small closed tears at the top of the spine

Eloise at Christmastime by Kay Thompson

Candide New No owner’s signaturesCandide by Voltaire, First edition, first French published edition, Paris, 1759 $25,000 Voltaire did a brilliant job of getting this book out without the censors finding it. He had it published in 1759 in Geneva, London and Paris among other spots across Europe. The subject was so controversial (attacks on both Church and State) that publishing in Paris could result in Bastille prison time, something that Voltaire was familiar with. He published the