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Haldane's Daedalus Revisited
by Dronamraju, Krishna R. (ed)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 019854846X
- ISBN 13
- 9780198548461
- Seller
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Sandy, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. 1st edition. Hardback. Octavo. [xv prelims] 147 pages. Frontispiece a b&w photograph of the members of the Biochemistry Department, University of Cambridge, in 1930. Introduction by Dronamraju; Foreword by Joshua Lederberg; contributions by Elof Axel Carlson, Freeman Dyson, Yaron Ezrahi, Ernst Mayr, Avrion Mitchison, Max Perutz and David Weatherall. Good in Good jacket. Boards bumped in the bottom corner; spine ends a bit pushed in. Text tanned and dull at the edges, with a soiled patch on the top edge. Jacket has obvious wear and creasing to its edges and corners, particularly around the foot of its spine (which has a couple of chips) and to the bottom edge of its front (which has a creased closed tear). Both faces are rubbed and have picked up a few marks.
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- Bookseller
- Alex Richardson (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1693
- Title
- Haldane's Daedalus Revisited
- Author
- Dronamraju, Krishna R. (ed)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 019854846X
- ISBN 13
- 9780198548461
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1995
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Essays, Science, Biology, Biologists, Genetics, Haldane, J. B. S., Daedalus or Science and the Future
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science;
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About the Seller
Alex Richardson
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Sandy, Bedfordshire
About Alex Richardson
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