Candide; a comic operetta based on Voltaire's satire

New York: Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. (c.1957). First Edition. Hardcover. [slight damage to lower corners (both book and jacket), but otherwise a nice copy, with the usual age-toning to the jacket (most pronounced on the spine)]. (3 B&W photographs) The book and lyrics (no music) to this modern classic, the only musical play (OK, operetta) that Hellman ever wrote -- although (per Wikipedia) "since 1974 it has been generally performed with a book by Hugh Wheeler, which is more faithful to Voltaire's novel." (Bernstein's music, thankfully, endures.) .