Darwin and Modern Science: Essays in Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth of Charles Darwin and of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of The Origin of Species
by Seward, A.C., editor
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Sugar Grove, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1910. First Edition Second Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. A Good copy in green hard covers lettered in gold, top edge gilt, of the 1910 second printing of this 595-page volume (with the first printing in 1909). 1918 owner's name, scattered pencil underlining and marginalia, and endnotes. Sun-fading to the spine cloth. A sound reading copy of the original edition, and not ex-library. No dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Row by Row Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 056010
- Title
- Darwin and Modern Science: Essays in Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth of Charles Darwin and of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of The Origin of Species
- Author
- Seward, A.C., editor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Second Printing
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1910
- Keywords
- evolution
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Row by Row Bookshop
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Sugar Grove, North Carolina
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Row by Row Bookshop is an online bookseller. Our stock is eclectic and literary, and is a mix of modern and antiquarian. We also have a booth at the Appalachian Antique Mall, 631 W. King Street, Boone, NC
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- Top Edge Gilt
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- First Edition
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- Marginalia
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- Jacket
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