[Signed] [Illustrated Books] Candide Voltaire | Rockwell Kent [Illustrator]

Quarto; in tan polished linen cloth, with embossed titling and decorations picked out in gilt, and double rules to the perimeter of the upper board in gilt as well; 111 page, followed by the colophon; the edition is limited to 1470 numbered copies, of which this is #1324, signed by Rockwell Kent on the colophon; the spine has darkened a bit.~~Bennett Cerf was the force behind the storied publishing which he founded in 1927 with the idea that they would "publish a few books . at random". Rockwell Kent happened to be present at the genesis of the firm. He quickly sketched out the Random House logo. And then . this book was the first book published the company the following year, with the logo printed in a pattern on the endpapers in green and in tan. Near Fine binding.