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Darwin, Charles; Hyman, Stanley Edgar [Editor, Introduction]Biblio.com

DARWIN FOR TODAY; THE ESSENCE OF HIS WORKS Signed

1962Best.-Nr. 1412756New York: The Viking Press 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo viii 435 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. In full green cloth binding. Jacket is green with orange and white lettering white titling to spine wrapped in an archival mylar sleeve. Jacket shows light shelving wear with rubbing along edges and at corners wrinkling at the head and tail and scuffing along joints. Wrinkling to top corner of front flap. Price unclipped: "$7.50". Boards are sunned along the top and bottom edges and on the spine. Bottom fore corner of rear board is lightly bumped. Text block is moderately age toned and lightly worn along edges. Interior clean. Humorously inscribed by Hyman as Charles Darwin to Susan Sheehan on first free endpaper: "For Susan-- / In friendship / Charles Darwin / March 1964". Shelved in Room X. Second Story Books is honored to offer this item from the personal collection of Neil and Susan Sheehan. Neil Sheehan 1936-2021 and Susan Sheehan born 1937 were a distinguished husband-and-wife team whose careers helped define American literary journalism in the second half of the twentieth century. Neil Sheehan a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times is best known for his role in bringing the Pentagon Papers to public attention and for his landmark book "A Bright Shining Lie" while Susan Sheehan built a parallel reputation as a leading voice at The New Yorker crafting deeply reported narrative nonfiction on subjects ranging from mental health to social institutions earning her own Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Their longstanding ties to major publications particularly The New Yorker placed them at the center of an influential cultural and intellectual network and the books from their library carry added provenance through this close connection to the magazine's editorial and artistic community. 1412756. Special Collections - Upstairs. The Viking Press hardcover