An Urchin in the Storm : Essays about Books and Ideas
by Gould, Stephen Jay
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good ++/Very Good ++
- ISBN 10
- 039302492X
- ISBN 13
- 9780393024920
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY, U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 1987. Tight, clean book by the noted Harvard Scientist. These are essays concerning Books and Ideas. 255 pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++/Very Good ++. Illus. by Levine, David A. (illustrator).
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
- abookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5002284
- Title
- An Urchin in the Storm : Essays about Books and Ideas
- Author
- Gould, Stephen Jay
- Illustrator
- Levine, David A. (illustrator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good ++
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good ++
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 039302492X
- ISBN 13
- 9780393024920
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- BIOLOGY SCIENCE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Essays;
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
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