Candide or The Optimist Agatha Christie first printing of this collective

first printing of this collective portrait of C

it is difficult to confirm whether 500 copies were actually printed

You feel cold winds from outer space blowing into the warm familiarity of life

with a few sporadic spots of foxing to edges and prelims

218 and 250)

Candide or The Optimist Agatha Christie first printing of this collectiveCandide or The Optimist by M. de Voltaire. London: The Folio Society, 1948. Illustrated by Kenneth Hobson. Translated by Henry Morley. 221 134 14 mm. Pp. [iviii], 1135 [136]: [7] leaves of colour plates (facing pp. [i], 16, 24, 65, 80, 97 and 112). Type: Bodoni. Printed by the Chiswick Press. Bound by Mackay in quarter black buckram, marbled paper boards. Yellow dust jacket printed in black and colour. The plates were printed lithographically from