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London: Penguin, 1985. 20th Edition. Softcover. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical Description: 476 pages. Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects. Evolution (Biology). Natural selection. Life Origin. Natural selection Evolution Biological sciences. Darwinism. Organisms Evolution Natural selection Early works. Genre: Science. Philosophy.

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Paperback. Good. 1902 edition, published by Grant Richards. Endsheet tanning and minor foxing. Boards and spine all in vgc considering age. Inc newscutting dated 1930. Sold by the UK Charity Langdon supporting young people with disabilities. Despatched within one working day

New York : Heritage Press, 1963, 1963. Very Good. xxx, 470 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. ; LCCN: 63-5353 ; LC: QH365; Dewey: 575.0162; OCLC: 1563903 ; with a new preface by Charles G. Darwin ; iIllustrated with wood engravings by Paul Landacre. ; Paul Hambleton Landacre was one of the outstanding printmakers of the modern era. His distinguished body of work was largely responsible for elevating the wood engraving to an art form in twentieth-century America. Landacre's linocuts and wood engravings of landscapes, still lifes, nudes, and abstractions are celebrated for their technical virtuosity and mastery of design....In March 1932, the artist and his wife moved to a rustic house in the Echo Park neighborhood, also known as Edendale, near downtown Los Angeles, where they lived for the remainder of their lives. Landacre died in 1963 soon after—and emotionally resulting from—the death of his wife who had been an essential working companion for 38 years, even helping the artist late in his life pull… Read More

[Toronto]: Parasitic Ventures Press, 2005. Volume LI, Syntactic Analyses. Card Covers. pp. 382. Small 8vo., measuring 5" x 7.5". Plain card covers, black endpapers. Light rubbing, short crease to the front cover, contents without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; very good. Exceptionally scarce in commerce. Unrecorded in OCLC. Volume 51 in a series published by Prasitic Ventures Press. "Conceived in the waning years of the last century, produced as a one-off for an exhibition in 2004, and now republished as a new open-edition set, Syntactic Analyses is modelled on ‘great-books’ series such as the Everyman’s Library. One hundred volumes of must read books, primarily covering political thought, philosophy, and history."

London: John Murray | Printed at the Edinburgh Press, 1902. Hardcover. pp. xxxi, 703. 8vo., measuring 5.25" x 8". Publisher's original stamped green cloth, gilt lettering to the spine. Lovely sepia-tone portrait of Darwin captioned with his signature in facsimile, and accompanied with its immaculate-preserved original tissue-guard; one fold-out plate. Light bumping and touch of edgewear to the cloth extremities, slightly shaken. Very light age-toning strictly confined to the endpapers, neat period ink name to the ffep, else, text-block remains quite bright, clean, and unmarked with sound binding. Overall, very good. A lovely early edition of Darwin's magnum opus and one of the most consequential works of natural history.

London: Watts & Co., 1950. [Evolutionary Science] FIRST REPRINT OF THE 1859 EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xx; 426. With a facsimile frontispiece showing the original 'Whale-Bear' passage. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dark green typographic dust-jacket, priced at 15s. A touch of light toning and spotting, otherwise crisp and clean. Jacket shows just a hint of toning to spine and some light wear to extremities. Near fine. Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (published 1859) is a seminal work in naturalist literature and without doubt the pivotal work and foundation of evolutionary science. It introduced the theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. Darwin's book was the culmination of evidence he had accumulated on the voyage of the Beagle in the 1830s and expanded through continuing investigations and experiments since his return. This edition reproduces the exact text of the first edition for the very… Read More