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Title (in red and black): PART I | CANDIDE | OR | ALL FOR THE BEST | ★ | TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF | M. DE VOLTAIRE | ★ | WITH 10 ETCHINGS BY | CLARA TICE | ★ | EXACT REPRINT OF THE EARLIEST ENGLISH TEXT | PRINTED IN HOLLAND BY | JOH. ENSCHEDÉ EN ZONEN | FOUNDED IN HAARLEM ANNO MDCCIII | FOR | THE BENNETT LIBRARIES INC. | NEW YORK | MDCCCCXXVII || Limitation: 1,000 copies of which numbers 1 t0 250 are on a special deckle-edge Pannekoek paper; and numbers 251 to 1,000 are on papier à la cuve; this is copy № 310 (stamped in pink ink). Illustrations: 10 coloured etchings, incl. frontispiece, produced by an American artist Clara Tice (1888 – 1973) on a watermarked laid paper and bound in with tissue guards, lettered in red. Binding: 23.5 x 15.3 cm, quarter black buckram over wrinkled faux-marbled paper painted with gilt, gilt design and lettering to spine, black endpapers (both flyleaves present), top margin gilt, other trimmed rough. Collation: [10] – five blank leaves, [2] – h.t. / limitation, [2] – t.p. / imprint, 7-119 [120 blank], [121-2] – part 2 d.t.p. / blank, 123-182, [183-9] – contents, [190 blank], [10] – five blank leaves, the first blank uncut from [189/90]; total number of pages 216; total number of leaves 108 plus 10 plates with tissue guards, incl. frontispiece. Contributors: François-Marie Arouet [Voltaire] (French, 1694 – 1778)– author. Tobias George Smollett (British, 1721 – 1771) – translator (translation of 1759). Clara Tice (American, 1888 – 1973) – artist. The Bennett Libraries (NY) – publisher. Johannes Enschedé en Zonen (Haarlem) – printer.
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Title (in red and black): CANDIDE | OU L'OPTIMISME | PAR | VOLTAIRE | ILLUSTRATIONS | DE | BRUNELLESCHI | {vignette} | GIBERT JEUNE | LIBRAIRIE D'AMATEURS | 61, BOULEVARD SAINT-MICHEL, 61 | PARIS || Pagination : [6] 1-163 [164][2], with 23 black tailpieces, plus 16 colour plates extraneous to collation, incl. frontispiece, printed by A. Dantan and stencil-coloured (au pochoir) by E. Charpentier after gouache and watercolour drawings by Umberto Brunelleschi; total 102 leaves. Limited edition of 2500 copies, this is № 39. Printed at Imprimerie Coulouma, Argenteuil (H. Barthélemy, director) on July 15, 1933. Binding: 26.5 x 20.5 cm, publisher’s pictorial wrappers, vignettes and lettering to front wrapper and spine, publisher’s device to back wrapper. Description of the stensil (au pochoir) technique.
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Vol. 1. Title : VOYAGES | ET MÉMOIRES | DE | MAURICE-AUGUSTE, | COMTE DE BENYOWSKY, | Magnat des Royaumes d’Hongrie et de | Pologne, etc. etc. | Contenant ses Opérations militaires en | Pologne, son exil au Kamtchatka, son Evasion | et son Voyage à travers l’Océan pacifique, au | Japon, à Formose, à Canton en Chine, et | les détails de l’Etablissement qu’il fut chargé | par le Ministère François de former à Mada- | gascar. | TOME PREMIER. | A PARIS, Chez F. Buisson, Imprimeur-Libraire, rue | Hautefeuille, no 20. | (1791.) Pagination : [2] – h.t. / blank, [2] – t.p. / blank, [i] ii-viii, [1] 2-466. Collation: 8vo; [π]2 a4, A-Ff8 Gg1. Vol. 2. Title: Similar, but TOME SECOND. Pagination: [2] – h.t. / blank, [2] – t.p. / blank, [1] 2-486. Collation: 8vo; [π]2 A-Gg8 Hh3, Hh3 unsigned. Binding: both volumes uniformly bound in half brown calf over speckled beige boards, crimson label with gilt lettering to flat spine, volume number in garland, florets in compartments. Bookplate to front pastedown: "C. De Oetting." Ink stamp to t.p.: "Oettingen-Wallersteinsche Bibliothek". Provenance: Oettingen-Wallerstein library (Oettingen-Wallersteinsche Bibliothek) is the former library of the princes of Oettingen-Wallerstein, now part of the collection of Augsburg University library.
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Hardcover, 217 x 142 mm, pictorial boards and spine, lettering; pictorial endpapers, collated 16mo: 1-1816, i.e. 288 leaves; pp.: [1-4] 5-573 [3], pictorial title, section titles, and frontispieces within collation. Print run 3000 copies. Title-page: ВЕНЕДИКТ ЕРОФЕЕВ | МОСКВА – | ЭДУАРД ВЛАСОВ | Бессмертная поэма | Венедикта Ерофеева | «МОСКВА – ПЕТУШКИ» | МОСКВА ВАГРИУС 2002 || Contents: Венедикт Ерофеев. Москва – Петушки. Поэма. (pp. 13-119); Эдуард Власов. Бессмертная поэма Венедикта Ерофеева «Москва – Петушки»: Спутник писателя (121-574). Contributors: Ерофеев, Венедикт Васильевич [Yerofeyev, Venedikt] (Russian, 1938 – 1990) – author Власов, Эдуард Ю. – author/commentary Попов, Евгений Анатольевич (Russian, b. 1946) – preface Муравьёв, Владимир Сергеевич (Russian, 1939 – 2001) – editor Гусейнов, Вадим Владимирович (Russian, b. 1962) – artist
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The true first edition in original parts, published in four issues of the Soviet magazine «Трезвость и культура», Москва, Профиздат (Sobriety and Culture, Moscow, Trade Union Publishing): Part 1 in № 12/1988, pp. 26-38; Part 2 in № 1/1989, pp. 26-37; Part 3 in № 2/1989, pp. 28-39; Part 4 in № 3/1989, pp. 30-35. Each issue: 260 x 200 mm; 64 pages, in pictorial wrappers, stapled. Print run: 12/1988 — 800,525 copies; 1/1989 — 626,970 copies; 2/1989 — 635,115 copies; 3/1989 — 639,810 copies. The first part was submitted for typesetting on October 10 and signed to print on November 28, 1988. This makes it the first officially published 'Soviet' edition; however, it lacks the author's foreword and was substantially censored. Reference: Id., Moskva-Petushki, “Trezvost’ i kul’tura”, 12 (1988): 26-38 [introduction by S. Chuprinin, censured edition]. Id., Moskva-Petushki, “Trezvost’ i kul’tura”, 1 (1989): 26-37; 2 (1989): 28-39; 3 (1989): 30-35 [censured edition]. Contributors: Ерофеев, Венедикт Васильевич [Yerofeyev, Venedikt] (Russian, 1938 – 1990) – author Чупринин, Сергей Иванович (Russian, b. 1947) – preface Басыров, Гариф Шарипович (Russian, 1944 – 2004) – artist
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Softcover, 200 x 126 mm, publisher’s pictorial wrappers, pp. [2] 3-126 [2]. ISBN: 5-85965-006-X. Title-page: ВЕНЕДИКТ | ЕРОФЕЕВ | — | МОСКВА–ПЕТУШКИ | Рига {R Rakstnieks} 1991 || Print run 50,000 copies. Contributors: Ерофеев, Венедикт Васильевич [Yerofeyev, Venedikt] (Russian, 1938 – 1990) – author Dainis Breikšs [Дайнис Брейкшс] (Latvian, b. 1942) – artist Муравьёв, Владимир Сергеевич (Russian, 1939 – 2001) – preface
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Hardcover, 210 x 147 mm, black cloth with geometrical (avant-garde style) lettering to front cover and spine, pictorial endpapers, pp.: [1-7] 8-510 [2]. Chair of the editorial board of the almanach Каверин, Вениамин Александрович [Kaverin, Veniamin] (Russian-Jewish, 1902 – 1989) Print run 50,000 copies. ISBN 5-7000-0161-6. It was the first more or less uncensored publication in the Soviet Union. Submitted for typesetting on September 27, 1988, signed to print on January 2, 1989. Referenced as: Moskva-Petushki, in Vest’: Sbornik. Proza, poėziia, dramaturgiia, Knizhnaia palata, Moskva 1990: 418-506 [complete edition]. Contributors: Венедикт Васильевич Ерофеев [Venedikt Yerofeyev] (Russian, 1938 – 1990) – author.
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Hardcover, 175 x 128 mm, red cloth with gilt arabesque, lettered label and arabesque to spine, collated 8vo: 1-198, i.e. 152 leaves, incl. seven illustrations., pp. [1-9] 10-302 [2], plus frontispiece author’s portrait (reproduction), guard tissue; grey and black dust jacket with lettering in arabesque framework. Title-page (blue and black): СИРАНО ДЕ БЕРЖЕРАК | ИНОЙ СВЕТ | ИЛИ | ГОСУДАРСТВА | И ИМПЕРИИ | ЛУНЫ | РЕДАКЦИЯ | И ВСТУПИТЕЛЬНАЯ СТАТЬЯ | В. И. НЕВСКОГО | {fleuron} | ACADEMIA | МОСКВА – ЛЕНИНГРАД | — | M. CM. XXXI. || Half-title (blue and black): СОКРОВИЩА | МИРОВОЙ | ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ | ~ | СИРАНО ДЕ БЕРЖЕРАК | ИНОЙ СВЕТ | ИЛИ | ГОСУДАРСТВА | И ИМПЕРИИ | ЛУНЫ | ~ || Title verso (imprint): Saviniens de Cyrano de Bergerac's (sic) L'autre Monde on les Etats et les Empires de la Lune (1669). Орнаментация книги худ. И. Ф. Редберга. Иллюстрации из старинных изданий. Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): № 467, p. 220. Original title: Histoire comique des États et Empires de la Lune. Print run: 5000 copies. Another translation by Гунст, Евгений Анатольевич (Russian, 1901 – 1983) was published in 1971 at Библиотека всемирной литературы, серия первая, том 34: LIB-0903.2015 under title "Иной свет, или государства и империи Луны". Contributors: Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien de (French, 1619 – 1655) – author. Невский, Владимир Иванович [Кривобоков; Кривобок, Феодосий Иванович] (Russian, 1876 – 1937) – author/preface, editor of translation. Оксман, Юлиан Григорьевич (Russian-Jewish, 1894 – 1970) – author/preface. Рерберг, Иван Фёдорович (Russian, 1892 – 1957) – artist.
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スラブ社会文化論シリーズ||スラブ シャカイ ブンカロン シリーズ ; 第4号 Softcover, grey publisher’s wrappers with black lettering, in silver dust jacket with black lettering and vignette; pp. [8] [i] ii-iii [iv] [1] 2-293 [5]; 257 x 183 mm. DJ Front: Эдуард ВЛАСОВ | БЕССМЕРТНАЯ ПОЭМА | ВЕНЕДИКТА ЕРОФЕЕВА | МОСКВА ПЕТУШКИ | {vignette} | СПУТНИК ПИСАТЕЛЯ | Slavic research center | Hokkaido university || Title-page: Эдуард ВЛАСОВ | БЕССМЕРТНАЯ ПОЭМА | ВЕНЕДИКТА ЕРОФЕЕВА | МОСКВА ПЕТУШКИ | {vignette} | СПУТНИК ПИСАТЕЛЯ | ИЗДАНИЕ ПЕРВОЕ, | ИСПРАВЛЕННОЕ И СОКРАЩЕННОЕ || Contributors: Ерофеев, Венедикт Васильевич [Yerofeyev, Venedikt] (Russian, 1938 – 1990) – author Власов, Эдуард Ю. – author/commentary