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The Origin: A Biographical Novel of Charles Darwin
by STONE, Irving
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- very good(-)/good
- ISBN 10
- 0385120648
- ISBN 13
- 9780385120647
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1980. First. hardcover. very good(-)/good. 743 pages (light dampstain to inner corner of lower margins, not affecting text), very thick 8vo, brown cloth, dust wrapper (chipped with small pieces missing along edges, price clipped). Garden City: New York, Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1980. First Edition after a privately printed limited edition. A very good (-) copy in a good dust wrapper.<br/> <br/> Inscribed by the author on the half-title page: "To... Author of the definitive work on the health and the effects of Darwin's health (or vice-versa!) on his work: 'To Be An Invalid.' Fraternally Irving Stone July 1980."<br/> <br/>
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- Bookseller
- Argosy Book Store (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 205391
- Title
- The Origin: A Biographical Novel of Charles Darwin
- Author
- STONE, Irving
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good(-)
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0385120648
- ISBN 13
- 9780385120647
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- Charles Darwin
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