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Bully for Brontosaurus
by Gould, Stephen Jay (signed)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0393029611
- ISBN 13
- 9780393029611
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
NY: WW Norton, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. Signed by Gould on the half-title page. Laid in is a flyer for Gould's appearance in Trinity University's Distinguished Scientists Lecture Series where the book was apparently signed. The book collects thirty-five of his best columns from Natural History magazine with a focus on evolution and "the innumerable oddities of nature." A near fine book with a hint of dust soiling to upper text block face; in a fine jacket.
Synopsis
Bully for Brontosaurus (1991) is the fifth volume of collected essays by the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. The essays were culled from his monthly column "The View of Life" in Natural History magazine, to which Gould contributed for 27 years. The book deals, in typically discursive fashion, with themes familiar to Gould's writing: evolution and its teaching, science biography, and probabilities.
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- Bookseller
- Rural Hours
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1081
- Title
- Bully for Brontosaurus
- Author
- Gould, Stephen Jay (signed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0393029611
- ISBN 13
- 9780393029611
- Publisher
- WW Norton
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1991
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Rural Hours (formerly Wood + River = Books, est. 2019) specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, environmental literature, and contemporary essay, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We draw our name from the popular-but-then-forgotten book by Susan Fenimore Cooper (published in 1850), generally considered the first work of environmental creative nonfiction by a woman in the U.S. We are interested in challenging and expanding the canon of environmental literature and finding books that tell remarkable stories and illuminate the tradition of writing about place and natural history.
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