Guns, Germs, and Steel; The Fates of Human Socities
by Diamond, Jared
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0393038912
- ISBN 13
- 9780393038910
- Seller
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Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in an about Near Fine jacket, roughly clipped with some text affected, bumped at the edges. Quarter yellow buckram with blue paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The true first printing of Diamond's Pulitzer Prize-winning work that attempts to explain the success of Eurasian and North African civilizations throughout history.
Synopsis
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is a 1997 book by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at UCLA. In 1998 it won a Pulitzer Prize and the Aventis Prize for Best Science Book. A documentary based on the book and produced by the National Geographic Society was broadcast on PBS in July 2005.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4264
- Title
- Guns, Germs, and Steel; The Fates of Human Socities
- Author
- Diamond, Jared
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0393038912
- ISBN 13
- 9780393038910
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- Culture, Anthropology, Geography, Ethnology
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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Woodstock, Illinois
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- Fine
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- Buckram
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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