VOLTAIRE! VOLTAIRE! Uncorrected and Unpublished Manuscript in 2 Volumes
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961. First edition. Both volumes in stiff printed wrappers, comb bound as issued. 787 leaves, in two volumes, reproducing hundreds of handwritten changes to the original manuscript. This biographical novel traces the parallel lives of Voltaire, "the wittiest, most irreverent, most spectacular philosopher who ever..... More