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New Haven (CT): Yale University Press, 1982. First edition. Part of the Yale English Poets series. Fine in fine dust wrapper.

Providence (RI): Brown University Press, 1957. First Edition. Friedrich's writings on law and constitutionalism made him one of the world's leading political scientists in the post-World War II period, and he is one of the most influential scholars of totalitarianism. Slight to toning to endpapers, still easily fine in fine dust wrapper.

Oxford (UK): Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1930. First edition of this important and uncommon book on the synthetic theory of evolution. Prior owner's name, otherwise a lovely copy, fine indeed, in a near fine price clipped and toned dust wrapper with two small edge tears. Sir Gavin Rylands de Beer (1 November 1899 – 21 June 1972) was a British evolutionary embryologist, known for his work on heterochrony as recorded in this 1930 book, later reissued under the title Embryos and Ancestors. He was director of the Natural History Museum, London, president of the Linnean Society of London, and a winner of the Royal Society's Darwin Medal for his studies on evolution.
No less an authority than Stephen Jay Gould wrote in 1977 of this work:
"In a series of remarkable books that established the synthetic theory of evolution, Gavin de Beer's Embryology and Evolution was the first and shortest (1930; expanded and retitled Embryos and Ancestors, 1940; 3rd ed 1958). In 116 pages de Beer brought embryology… Read More

London: Oxford University Press, 1930 First edition in English. Previous owner's name, else a fine fresh copy in price clipped dust wrapper, slightly toned and with minimal rubbing.

Oxford (UK): Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1926. First edition. Prior owner's name, uneven tanning to front and rear endpapers otherwise a lovely copy, fine indeed. Dust wrapper has a diamond shape cut out of the spine (why?), one other chip, a tiny edge tear and very slight rubbing to the top spine. Otherwise near fine.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. First Edition. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper.

Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1964. Later Printing. A fine copy in dust wrapper with little spine toning but is otherwise fine.

Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1962. Later Printing. A fine copy in dust wrapper with price label (but not price clipped) and little spine toning but is otherwise fine.

Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1969. Later Printing. 1972 winner of Nobel Prize. Slight mottling to front board, otherwise an unusally nice, square copy. About fine in like dust wrapper (spine ever so slightly faded, area of slight darkening, trifling edgewear).

Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press, 1937. First Edition. Top Edge Gilt; offsetting to front and rear pastdown and endpapers, as well as to half-title page, otherwise a very fine copy in bright red boards and crisp gilt titles in a very nearly fine dust wrapper with slight dust soiling.