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Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies
by Darwin, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG++/VG++
- ISBN 10
- 0199208638
- ISBN 13
- 9780199208630
- Seller
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2008* Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press.* Binding and cover condition: Blue-black cloth, gilt title to spine. No rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear, very slight bump to tail of spine. VG++* Jacket condition: Dull red dust wrapper with two skeletons and b/w print to spine and face now in protected jacket. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £12.99 to rear of jacket. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to bottom edges and to tail of spine. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY. Neat owners stamp to half title. Red silk ribbon marker. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. Seems lightly used, if at all. VG++.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 436 pp. text. lx pp. notes, biographical index, general index & blank pages at rear.* Description: On topics ranging from intelligent design and climate change to the politics of gender and race, the evolutionary writings of Charles Darwin occupy a pivotal position in contemporary public debate. This volume brings together the key chapters of his most important and accessible books, including the Journal of Researches on the Beagle voyage (1845), the Origin of Species (1859), and the Descent of Man (1871), along with the full text of his delightful autobiography. They are accompanied by generous selections of responses from Darwin's nineteenth-century readers from across the world. More than anything, they give a keen sense of the controversial nature of Darwin's ideas, and his position within Victorian debates about man's place in nature.* A NEAR FINE copy with minor wear. Now in protected dust jacket.* Secord, James A.
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1117
- Title
- Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies
- Author
- Darwin, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG++/VG++
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0199208638
- ISBN 13
- 9780199208630
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Place of Publication
- Oxford, UK 496
- Date Published
- 2008-11-13
- Size
- 19.8 x 4.8 x 14 cm
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