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Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Charles Kingsley, clergyman, historian, novelist, poet, and social critic, is remembered today for his works, "The Water Babies", "Hypatia", "Westward Ho!", and "Hereward the Wake". He was an avowed Darwinist, being a close friend of Charles Darwin; Kingsley's complimentary commentary on Darwin's great work was incorporated into a Postscript to "On the Origin of Species". ************************************ In 1874 Kingsley undertook a lecture tour across the United States. He was a popular author on both sides of the Atlantic, and it was a successful journey, and provided Kingsley with material for works he later wrote. In "Charles Kingsley's American Notes : Letters From a Lecture Tour, 1874" we can read the letters sent by Kingsley back to his wife in England (Francis Eliza Kingsley, nee Grenfell) . Kingsley had a loving relationship with his wife, and his letters are honest, relaxed and open - full of perceptive observations that he shared with her. They are quite fascinating - he describes places and people, natural landscapes and cities. The book was edited by Robert Bernard Martin and published in 1958 by Princeton University Library. This is the First Edition. The jacket and bottom board edges dispaly wear, which we describe further down the page. ************************************ TITLE : Charles Kingsley's American Notes : Letters From a Lecture Tour, 1874 / AUTHOR : Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875) / EDITOR : Robert Bernard Martin (1918 - 1999) / IMPRINT : Princeton University Library / PLACE : Princeton, NJ / DATE : 1958 / EDITION : First Edition / STATUS : Out of Print - OP / DETAILS : Contains a few illustrations, including photo portraits of Kingsley and his wife, an engraved portrait of Kingsley, and facsimile reproductions of his writing; there are also a couple of drawings done by Kingsley; End-papers have a reproduction of a chart kept by Kingsley on his voyage to the United States from Great Britain. the same illustration also fills the rear end-papers. There is an Index; [vi] + 62 pages; 6" x 9", dark blue, cloth-covered boards and spine, with gilt lettering stamped on spine; end-papers printed in two shades of green; printed buff dust-jacket is lettered in black, within 4 green, plain line, rectangular borders arranged in nesting panels. On the rear panel of the jacket is a list of Occasional Publications sponsored by the Friends of the Princeton Library. ******************************** CONDITION -- BOOK : NEAR VERY GOOD -- JACKET : GOOD -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and serviceable, with the following particulars noted :: EXTERIOR -- Spine lettering is bright; board surfaces are clean and free of extraneous marking; the bottom edge of both boards display shelf rub in the form of imprinted white scrapes and spots (Likely imparted by paint from the shelf - hence the condition grade); text-block edges are clean and free of marking. / BINDING -- Solid. The binding has a slight lean to the front. / INTERIOR - There are a few leaves that display shallow surface creasing this is not egregious, and there is no other signs of handling - no marking or underlining, no writing or marginalia, no signatures. The interior is clean and presentable. / DUST-JACKET -- The spine panel is darkened and displays staining; there are also two round stains near the bottom of the front board panel (over the publisher's name), and one irregularly shaped stain near the front joint fold, also near the bottom; there are a few other minute spots or discolorations but these are near-negligible, and most of the front and rear jacket panels are clean and presentable. the reverse side (that lies against the board surfaces) is considerably toned. The publishers original 1958 printed price is still on the front flap. Protected from further wear by a clear mylar cover.
Seller: Brothertown Books, Deansboro, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: 816 pp. Original cloth. Mottling of covers. Bookplate on front flyleaf. Good. This copy does NOT have any library markings. First Edition. This is the original edition, which is bound in cloth.
Seller: Scientia Books, ABAA ILAB, Arlington, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$72.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is the 1959 edition from the University of Pennsylvania Press. First edition for THIS "A Variorum Text" version. Edited by Morse Peckham. The dust jacket is present (which is rare). It does have some tears but is intact and now protected by a mylar covering. Has a gift inscription written in ink on first blank page; this inscription is dated Nov 1959. Overall excellent condition. BR (Box 313)
Seller: Best Books And Antiques, Chandler, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$74.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket with loss. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Pages unmarked. 816 p., 24 cm. Darwin published his theory of evolution with compelling evidence in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, overcoming scientific rejection of earlier concepts of transmutation of species. By the 1870s, the scientific community and much of the general public had accepted evolution as a fact. However, many favored competing explanations and it was not until the emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis from the 1930s to the 1950s that a broad consensus developed in which natural selection was the basic mechanism of evolution. In modified form, Darwin's scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, explaining the diversity of life.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Intriguing investigation of a "pernicious biological cult" that originated in the 1860s, when Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels first read Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" & tried to make his ideas of genetics & natural selection jive with their goals for a socialistic society in the USSR. The adoption of this "Marxian biology" paved the way for the Soviet Union to "annihilate all traces of the science of genetics from the Communist world." Repercussions for American culture, literature, sociology, & politics are considered. In 557 pp with Bibliography, Index, Preface. A FIRST EDITION, first printing, from 1959, this hardcover 8vo has textured blue cloth over boards, lettered in bright gilt to spine. Condition is Near Fine: completely clean, binding strong & straight, both hinges intact, pages off-white with light tanning to edges, heavier to endpapers. A hint of rubbing to extremities & very slight bumping to spine tips & corners. The unclipped DJ is only Good, with spine fading, light soil, & heavy chipping/small holes to extremities; nicely protected against further damage in new clear mylar cover free! Our photos show the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have on hand. Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm weekdays(PST); weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
Seller: Gargoyle Books, IOBA, La Mesa, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 816 pp. Original cloth. Very Good, in worn dust jacket. This copy does NOT have any library markings. First Edition. This is the original edition.
Seller: Scientia Books, ABAA ILAB, Arlington, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 816 pp. Original cloth. Near Fine, without dust jacket. This is the original edition, not the print-on-demand reprint. 'The theories propounded by Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species have had a profound and revolutionary effect, not only on biology but also on philosophy, history, and theology. His concept of natural selection has created eruptive disputes among scientists and religious leaders of his time and ours. The phenomenal importance of his brilliant work is universally recognized, but the present volume marks the first scholarly attempt to compile a complete variorum edition of The Origin of Species, covering all of the extensive variants in the six texts published between 1859 and 1872. Darwin's changes were extensive. His book grew by a third as he rewrote many passages four or five times, and in this edition Morse Peckham has recorded every one of those changes. A book of such distinctive dimensions, on a subject of such profound importance, will be of intense interest to historians of biology, evolution, science, literature, and cultural development. It will be an invaluable aid to the clarification and full comprehension of this complex and renowned scientific classic' (Web site of the University of Pennsylvania Press, which reprinted the book in paperback in 2006, ISBN 0812219546, new price $32.50). 'Darwin produced six editions [of The Origin of Species] during his lifetime and, as Peckham demonstrated nearly fifty years ago, he tinkered constantly with the text, adding and amending, revising and rethinking and, above all, responding to criticism' (Times Literary Supplement). Also, the 2004 Castle Books edition (ISBN: 0785819118) is NOT a reprint of Peckham's Variorum Edition, as some suggest.
Seller: Ted Kottler, Bookseller, Redondo Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$176.78 + shipping
Description: 816 S. Orig.-Leinwand mit Umschlag. Umschlag etwas randrissig u. stockfl. Gutes Exemplar. Sprache: Deutsch
Seller: Antiquariat Kunsthaus-Adlerstrasse, Stuttgart, Germany