Keeping Cool and Other Essays by Haldane, J B S - 1941

GB: British Publishers Guild (Chatto & Windus), 1944. Digest size. 175 x 130mm. Designed cover.. Services Edition. Paperback. G+.

GB: British Publishers Guild (Chatto & Windus), 1944. Digest size. 175 x 130mm. Designed cover. Sticker on front cover states "The surplus Government stock of this edition has been purchased by W.H. Smith Ltd for sale at 1/-". Services Edition. Paperback. G++.

GB: British Publishers Guild (Chatto & Windus), 1944. Standard Size 180 x 11mm. Designed cover. Fairly clean tight copy is quite heavily cocked.. Services Edition. Paperback. VG-.

GB: British Publishers Guild (Chatto & Windus), 1944. Digest size. 175 x 130mm. Designed cover. Sticker on front cover states "The surplus Government stock of this edition has been purchased by W.H. Smith Ltd for sale at 1/-". Services Edition. Paperback. VG-.

Chatto & Windus, 1940. Hardcover. Good. 1940. No Edition Remarks. 280 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Light tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscription to front pastedown. Light cracking to gutters; some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has minor tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. The noted British radical scientist and geneticist's best known book of essays in his vigorous conversational style (example: ""If I live another fifty years I expect that most of my acquaintances will be heartily tired of me"" in ""What is Death?""), and including ""The Marxist Philosophy,"" ""Why I Am a Materialist,"" and the famed ""What I Require from Life."" Book is clean and unmarked. The rare jacket has tiny edge chips to the lower spine and some sunning to the spine, but is else whole, clean and bright, and protected by a Mylar cover.