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Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition thus. Hardcover. 489 pages. Number 1332 from an edition of 1500 copies. An earlier book from Darwin who wrote the classic "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life." Features an introduction by Gavin De Beer. Includes black and white illustrations of Robert Gibbings. A tight very good copy in cloth boards with a faint stain to the base of the spine in a very good glassine dust jacket with some toning to the spine and some other wear and in a very good plus slipcase with some light wear and a faint stain to the bottom edge and with laid in newsletter for the Limited Editions Club.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 31 x 20 cm. Quarto. 489pp. Bound in tan cloth with design. Limited to 1500 copies signed by the wood engraver, Robert Gibbings, this being copy 1499. Lacking slipcase. Some toning to the spine. Light foxing to foredge.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$187.50 + shipping
Description: Tall quarto (7-1/2" x 12") bound in full sailcloth stamped in brown with a native tapa design; 490 pages. Introduction by Sir Gavin de Beer. Illustrated with text wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. Copy #323 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Foxing to bulked text fore-edge and mostly to first and last few pages; slight soiling to the spine of the book. Very Good in a Very Good slipcase
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.