CANDIDE

by Mahlon Blaine, François Marie Arouet de Voltaire

$750 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition · Signed

New York: Illustrated Editions Company, 1930 . Large octavo, six full-page illustrations by Mahlon Blaine, head and tailpieces by A. Zaidenberg, two-part cloth stamped in gold. First edition with these illustrations. A presentation copy inscribed by Blaine in 1965 to Burm Ham that incorporates a fine full-page original two-color drawing of Ham as Candide enticed by a nude woman on the verso of the half title leaf. Gold

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