An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas
by Gould, Stephen Jay
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 039302492X
- ISBN 13
- 9780393024920
- Seller
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Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
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About This Item
NY: W W Norton; (1987). First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First printing of this book of essays about science and biology, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Just slight darkening to the edge of the page block. The price clipped dust jacket has very minor wear. A few drawings by David Levine and an index; 255 pages. No names or other marking in or on the book.
Synopsis
An Urchin in the Storm is a volume of collected essays from paleontologist and well-known science writer Stephen Jay Gould. All but one of the essays had originally appeared in The New York Review of Books.
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- Bookseller
- Tulsa Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024086
- Title
- An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas
- Author
- Gould, Stephen Jay
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 039302492X
- ISBN 13
- 9780393024920
- Publisher
- W W Norton; (1987)
- Place of Publication
- NY
- This edition first published
- 1987
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science;
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Tulsa Books
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