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
Boston: Ginn & Company, 1900. Early Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv-viii, [1], 2-275, [4], 4-57, [1], [6] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Brown cloth with black rules and lettering on the front board, gold rules and lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with several in-text wood engravings..... 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
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 (1995), 1995. Lalla Ward. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], xi-xiii, [3], 1-172, [2] pp. Tan paper over 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..... More
New York: Harmony Books (1996), 1996. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xv, [3], 3-480 pp. Black paper-covered boards quarter-bound in black cloth with red metallic lettering on the spine. Price of $25.00 on front flap of dust jacket. More
New York: W W Norton & Co (1983), 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-413, [3] pp. Quarter green cloth over beige paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $15.50 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated with several black and white photographs. Very Good with age-darkening..... More
New York: Basic Books [1968], 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-vii, [5], 3-295, [7] pp. Bound in maroon cloth with bronze lettering on the spine, red-orange topstain. Price of $6.95 on front jacket flap. A nice copy of Grene's overview of five European philosopher-scientists and their thoughts on the..... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers [1967], 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xii, [2] 176, [2] pp. Quarter black cloth over red paper boards with red and silver lettering on the spine. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by several black and white..... More
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1904. First edition. Hardcover. 4vo. [8], 316, [4] (advertisements for the Woburn Library of Natural History's other publications) pp. Green cloth ruled in blind, lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine and front board, top edge gilt. Twelve coloured plates taken from photographs and drawings..... More
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation [2014], 2014. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 11-207, [1] pp. Quarter black cloth over black paper boards with a gold decoration on the front board and gold lettering on the spine. Price of $23.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Title page illustrated..... More