Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. Sheilah Beckett (illustratore). Bantam Classic, March 1981. Mass Market Paperback. Second printing, August 1981. Near Fine. Lightly tanned, but unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 122 pages. The story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolent cosmic plan.
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Hbk, square 8vo, 106pp, profusely illustr full-page b+w photos throughout, no dj as issued, quarter cloth over pictorial laminated boards, slight sunfading to spine, otherwise a fine, clean, tight and unmarked text.