Banquet at Delmonico's: Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America
by Werth, Barry
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1400067782
- ISBN 13
- 9781400067787
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 2009. xxxi, 362 pages; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. " Draws readers inside the circle of philosophers, scientists, politicians, businessmen, clergymen, and scholars who brought Charles Darwin's controversial ideas to America in the crucial years after the Civil War. Prominent among these men were the English philosopher Herbert Spencer, industrialist Andrew Carnegie, clergyman Henry Ward Beecher, and political reformer Carl Schurz." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
Synopsis
Barry Werth is the author of 31 Days, The Scarlet Professor, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Damages , and The Billion-Dollar Molecule . He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 112776
- Title
- Banquet at Delmonico's: Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America
- Author
- Werth, Barry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 1400067782
- ISBN 13
- 9781400067787
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES;
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