New York: E.P. Dutton [1979], 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], xi-xii, [6], 3-238, [2] pp. Quarter blue cloth over blue paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Blue endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $11.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A meditation on concepts in biology..... More
Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson, Inc. [1987], 1987. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xxvi, [2], 3-545, [3] pp. Red cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine. Red endpapers and pastedowns. A new edition of Bateson's 1972 collection of essays. A Very Good book with a small separation..... More
London: Printed for R. Hunter, 1819. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [5], vi-xii, [1], 2-408 pp. Contemporary half green calf over blue cloth with the spine in about six compartments, purple morocco label lettered in gilt on the spine. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-four additional plates..... More
Washington, D.C. Tropical Plant Research Foundation, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], xv-xxiv, 1-410, [6] pp. Red textured cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. With a folding chart of the principal soils of Cuba laid in. Also with full-page and folding maps illustrating the volume (all..... More
Paris: Librairie J.-B. Baillière et Fils, 1885. Second edition; First edition. Wraps. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xxxi, [1], 1-404, [5], vi-xii, [1], 2-564 pp. Quarter later grey binder's cloth over orange paper wraps, with two paper labels printed in black on the spine. Two volumes bound in one. Volume one..... More
Paris: Librairie J.-B. Baillière et Fils, 1877. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-viii, 1-576 pp. Quarter early twentieth-century red leather over marbled paper boards with the spine in five compartments; top edge sprinkled red. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Bound without the wrappers. With in-text charts. Part of the Courses of..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2012. First edition thus. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [4], v-xvii, [3], 3-302 pp. Quarter navy cloth over navy paper boards with gold and silver decorations on the boards and gold lettering on the spine. Housed in a navy paper slipcase. Grey endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with full-page..... More
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 6-516 pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Lacks the dust jacket. A treatise on population and growth throughout pre-history and modern times; with chapters on language, the evolution of culture, humans as hunter-gatherers, and other anthropological..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press [2011], 2011. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [13], 2-273, [3] pp. Quarter black cloth over black paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Textured white endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $24.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A moderate lean to the binding. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xxiii, [3], 3-406, [2] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a few in-text diagrams. Foreword by G. Evelyn Hutchinson. A collection of essays. A small push to the top texrblock and pencil annotations throughout;..... More
Paris: Collection Iris / Hans Zbinden / Librairie Plon [1951], 1951. Later printing. Wraps. Folio. [4], 5-12 pp. Paper wraps with a printed sleeve and an acetate sleeve over the wraps. Blue and black decorations and red lettering on the front wrapper, black lettering on the spine. With twelve color..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-x, 1-188, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with several in-text and a few full-page black and white photographs, mostly of plants. With a contemporary name on the front..... More
New York: Basic Books [1988], 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], viii-xiii, [3], 3-182, [10] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with several black and white diagrams and four plates with black and white photographs. Jacket design by William Davis. Crick's recollections of his life as..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1985), 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [9], x-xxix, [4], 2-702 pp. Black cloth with gold lettering blocked in navy on the spine. Decorated endpapers and pastedowns with Darwin's family tree. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with four plates, a full-page illustration, and with a few..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1871. First American edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [3], iv-vi, [1], 2-409, [1], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) [2]; [3], iv-v, [4], 2-436, [6] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Orange-red cloth with black decorations on the boards and gold lettering on the spines..... More
Leipzig: Druct und Verlag von Philipp Reclam jun, ca. 1900. Reprint. Hardcover. 12mo. [5], 6-701, [3], 1-27, [5] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on the front board and spine, gilt decorations on the spine; all edges lightly marbled. Floral endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a...... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1875. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xxi, [2], 2-458, [2] pp. Red publisher's cloth with two black borders on each board, gilt lettering and rules on the spine. Yellow coated endpapers and pastedowns. New edition, from the sixth English edition, with additions and corrections..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1889. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xxi, [2], 2-458, [2] pp. Orange-red cloth with decorations stamped in black on the front board, gold lettering on the spine. Yellow coated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with one folding plate. A new edition from the sixth English edition..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company (1986), 1986. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xiii, [3], 1-332, [4] pp. Pale yellow paper over boards quarter-bound in navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $18.95 on front flap of jacket. An attractive copy of one of Dawkins' most..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company (1996), 1996. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xii, [2], 3-340 pp. Ivory-colored paper-covered boards quarter bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $25.00 on front flap of jacket. Original drawings by Lalla Ward. Includes a bibliography, an index, and several..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-vi, [2], 1-263, [1] pp. Dark orange paper-covered boards quarter-bound in black paper with gold letterig on the spine. Dark orange endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $24.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a few..... More
New York: Free Press [2009], 2009. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-ix, [4], 4-470 pp. Blue-grey paper-covered boards quarter bound in black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $30.00 on front flap of jacket. Faint abrasion to corner of free front end paper and remainder mark..... More
New York: Basic Books (1995), 1995. Lalla Ward. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], xi-xiii, [3], 1-172, [2] pp. Tan paper boards quarter-bound in black cloth with gold lettering and decorative eye design and publisher's device in red on the spine. Price of $20.00 on front flap of dust jacket..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1861. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [1] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [3], vi-xxii, [1], 26-531, [1], 4 (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Recently half-bound in red leather over red cloth with edges ruled in gilt, spine with five raised bands, gilt decorations, and..... More
Garden City, New York: The Natural History Press, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii, [3], 2-178, [2] pp. Quarter black cloth over light green boards. Price of $3.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Dust jacket designed by the great graphic designer Ellen Raskin. Illustrated with sixteen..... More