VOLTAIRE — Candide

New York : Grosset & Dunlap 1930 English translation in Cameo. With illustrations by Mahlon Blaine I:22+281 p.; II:287+25 p., portrait on frontisp. HARDCOVER: (Orig cloth, bit dull but with sharp gold vignet. VERY GOOD) Voltaire was incensed by the reaction from some members of the church to the horrible loss of life from an earthquake in Lisbon. He wrote this hard-biting satire of the human condition to explore these questions.