Candide

CandideCandide 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

The first book on Scientology

The 3rd Man by Graham Greene First US edition

making the surviving copies exceedingly rare

Viking Press

Haunting cover art  of Jack Kerouac as well

Overall a very good copy of this cornerstone of western literature

Louis L’Amour July 8

light foxing to outer edge of pages of book

line 6 (first two printings say “an” corrected to “and”) but with all the other first edition points on the copyright page (reference material: Ahearn)

Clean internally

The boards are strong and holding

Modern Age Books