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1945Hardcover. No jacket. Ex - library. Several marks and scores on boards. Leading edges of boards are a little bumped. Embossed library stamps on FEP, title page and a few further points. Minor stamp on front pastedown. Library label on BEP. Early pages are slightly creased. A few pages are marked. Binding is intact, contents are clear. AM Ex - Library
1947Hardcover. No jacket. Ex - library. Several marks and scores on boards. Spine ends are a little bumped. Embossed library stamps on FEP, title page and a few further points. Minor stamp on front pastedown. Library label on BEP. Slight imprint of ink on rear pastedown. A few pages are marked. Binding is intact, contents are clear. AM Ex - Library
1921Hardcover. No jacket. Ex-university library. From Birbeck College, London. Boards and spine are marked and worn. Leading corners, edges and spine ends are bumped. Page block and pages are tanned and lightly marked. Front pastedown hinge is split but binding remains intact. Embossed stamps on FEP and title page. Library label on BEP. Page edges are rough, nicked and creased. Text is clear throughout. HCW Ex-Library
1969Paperback in good condition. Covers are worn and marked, particularly the spine, edges are rubbed, and corners are dog-eared. Page block is tanned and blemished, and name penned to Copyright page. Pages and text are clear and unmarked throughout. LW Used
1973Stamping to usual places, sticker to spine. Library sheet to FEP. Library prepared but never circulated. Pages clean, bright and tight. Ex-Library
19128vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece (original tissue guard present, 9 plates on 7, and 5 maps (4 full-page) in the text, neat contemporary signatures on front free endpaper, free endpapers lightly browned, half-title lightly spotted' original blue cloth, upper board with gilt frame border, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, backstrip lightly chafed (without material loss) at head and tail else a very good, bright, firm copy. The frontispiece reproduces the famous photograph of the first Archaeopteryx fossil found at Eichstadt and now in the BMNH. Nice copy of the first appearance of this classic treatise, one of the most important studies of the immediate post-Darwinian period. McCabe began his career as a Catholic priest, but his faith was diluted by a rebellious intellect and he spent the greater part of his long life as a rationalist author and lecturer, and leading light of the English Athiesm movement. The first edition is scarce, especially in this condition.
1966Hardcover with jacket in good condition. Jacket is marked, edge-worn and nicked. Hardcover leading corners and spine ends are lightly bumped and worn. Page block and a few pages are lightly marked. Text is clear throughout. HCW Used
1981Stamp to FEP. General shelfwear. Text is clean, tight and bright. Wear and rubbing to DJ
1977Lightly sun faded dust jacket, blue hard cover with gilt lettering on spine and contents in very good clean condition. Illustrated with numerous diagrams and tabels. Review slip inside of book. Clean Copy
1970Paperback. 1970 facsimile reprint of the 1956 work. Spine and rear cover's lower corner are creased. Page block and page edges are tanned. Occasional minor marks, including pencil, within. All text is clear, and binding is sound. The Systematics Association Publication no. 2. TS Used
1899Blue cloth hardcover - very good for age. Minor age related wear and fading, mostly on the spine ends and leading corners. Foxing on the pastedowns, endpapers and some pages throughout. Some of the rough cut pages are still sealed on the upper edges. The binding remains sound. CM Used
2006Hardcover with printed boards, no dust jacket. Signed by author and dedicated to Bernard Dixon on FEP. Light shelfwear to boards, no other faults. AD Used
20048vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed account of arguably the greatest oceanographic mission of all, aiming to prove or refute Darwin's theory of evolution.
2001Hardcover. Dust jacket has some edge - wear and several minor scores. Spine ends are bumped. Binding is sound and pages are tight and clean throughout. Contents are clear. AF Used
1966Brown cloth boards show light wear. Ex-library: label on spine; card wallet on pastedown; remains of return slip on FEP; ink stamps on edges of page block, endpapers, title. Binding cracked at title; contents remain clean and sound throughout. Used
1966Hardcover in good condition. No jacket. Ex - library. Light edge wear on hardcover. Shelf label on spine foot. Page block is lightly marked. Stamps on FEP. Contents are clear throughout. Binding is sound. HCW Ex - Library
1977Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Inner flaps of jacket are tanned and light wear to jacket's upper edges. Old price of £2.95 net on jacket inner front flap. Leading corners of boards are faintly bumped. Pages are sound and internally clean throughout. TA Used
1969ref. 64531London UK: Radius Book/Hutchinson 1969. 8vo. x 2 273 1 pp. Text illustrations. Colour-illustrated softcovers minor creasing to lower corner rear cover still VG bright copy inscribed “In good friendship Lotte” to Elof Axel Carlson 1931-2025 noted geneticist historian of science and fierce opponent of eugenics. Revised edition signed of this well-written work by the pioneering Jewish German-British geneticist considered the “mother of chemical mutagenesis” who had discovered while researching mustard gas through World War II that it could induce gene mutations in fruit flies and that chemicals could alter DNA. Auerbach 1899-1994 was perhaps also best remembered for her work Genetics in the Atomic Age 1956 as well as her vociferous opposition to Nuclear weapons and Apartheid. Radius Book/Hutchinson, paperback
1983U. of Amsterdam PhD thesis, mainly in English, with foreword and postscript in Dutch. Scarce. Minor wear/fading to cover; contents clean, sound, well-preserved throughout. Used
1997Paperback, very good condition, includes CD-ROM. Light wear to the covers with some minor creases, slighly bumped corners and a sunned spine. Internally excellent throughout. DP Used
1996Hard cover is slightly corner worn, otherwise it is sound. Highlighting on pages 176, 183, otherwise pages are clean and bright throughout. Previous owner's name and date on FEP. Illustrated with numerous diagrams and tables. Used
1949Good hard cover, no jacket intended. Previous owner has (elegantly) penned and dated FEP. General shelf and handling wear, including cocked spine, lightly bumped corners. Pages very well bound, text and diagrams within unmarked. CN Used
2014Paperback. 'An analysis of natural selection and an exploration of other possible modes of speciation'. Penned dedication by the author on inside front cover. Covers have several minor surface scratches and one or two small dents. Minor wear to spine ends and leading corners. Binding is sound; pages are bright, tight and clean; contents are clear. AF Used
1993Jacket very tatty around edges and corners, very superficial surface marks and other creasings. Binding with quite dense soiling on covers. Spine very slightly brittle. Pages are clean and crisp, and printing is well preserved and highly legible throughout. MB Used
1942Hardcover in good condition. No jacket. Ex - university library. From Somerville College Library, Oxford. Boards are marked and tanned. Leading corners, edges and spine ends are bumped, worn and nicked. Page block and pages are lightly tanned and marked. Library plate on front pastedown. Label residue on FEP. Stamp on BEP. Contents remain clear throughout. HCW Ex - Library