(A Very Beautiful) Book Acquired, 9.27.2011

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What a wonderful present: a 1930 Grosset & Dunlap edition Candide (read our review of Candide). Received it last week, but I’ve been to busy to photograph it. Has a nice slipcase (above), and the cover sports a tactile cameo of Gutenberg in profile—

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Illustrations are by Mahlon Blaine, and inevitably involve sex and/or violence—like this one below—

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There a number of handsome full page illustrations as well. Just lovely.

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