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Dawkins, Richard. Climbing Mount Improbable. W. W. Norton & Company, 1996.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: U.S. first printing with full number line to 1. Signed by Dawkins at the title page. Boards very good, lightly scuffed to back panel, minor edgewear. Lightly bumped spine tips. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket very good in Mylar, with only light edgewear. Pages clean and unmarked.
Seller: The Book Bin, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Dawkins, Richard. Climbing Mount Improbable. W W Norton & Co Inc, 1996.
Price: US$57.69 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed Copy First edition copy. . Like New dust jacket. 1st American edition. Signed by author on half title page. (Natural Selection, Evolution, Genetics)
Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.95 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page (signature only). 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Both dust jacket and book are fine. A discussion of how probability applies to the science of evolution by the well known evolutionary biologist and atheist, founder of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science to promote the teaching of evolution and to counteract those who advocate classroom programs against evolution, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is the winner of the Los Angeles Times Literary Prize, Zoological Society of London's Silver Medal, Finlay Innovation Award, Michael Faraday Award, Nakayama Prize, Humanist of the Year Award, International Cosmos Prize, Kistler Prize, Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic, Emperor Has No Clothes Award, Bicentennial Kelvin Medal, Nierenberg Prize, Shakespeare Prize, Lewis Thomas Prize, and Deschner Award. He is the author of 'The Selfish Gene', 'The Blind Watchmaker', and 'The God Delusion'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
Seller: MostlySignedBooks, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Richard Dawkins. Climbing Mount Improbable. W W Norton & Co Inc, New York, 1996.
Price: US$68.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine copy with black cloth spine on cream paper boards and gilt titles on spine No marks or damage at all Unclipped DJ has just slight edge wear, but it otherwise excellent Signed by Dawkins on title page "Gift Quality" Climbing Mount Improbable is about probability and how it applies to the theory of evolution It debunks claims by creationists about the probability of naturalistic mechanisms like natural selection The main metaphorical treatment is of a geographical landscape upon which evolution can ascend only gradually and cannot climb cliffs (that is known as an adaptive landscape) Dawkins gives ideas about a seemingly complex mechanism coming about from many gradual steps that were previously unseen 340 pp.
Seller: Stanley Louis Remarkable Books, Saint Charles, IL, U.S.A.
Dawkins, Richard. CLIMBING MOUNT IMPROBABLE. Viking, 1996.
Price: US$95.09 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1996. Almost very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. The combination of perfection and improbablity that is epitomised in the seemingly designed perfection living things. Black boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. Second printing. SIGNED by the author (no dedication) to title page. B/w plates were stuck together and now prised apart giving surface paper damage and also imprinting of the facing page. Minor foxing to text block. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First U.S. edition / First printing. Signed on the title page by Richard Dawkins. Black cloth spine, pale gray paper-covered boards. xii, 340 pages. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket.
Seller: Orpheus Books, Edmonds, WA, U.S.A.
Dawkins, Richard. Climbing Mount Improbable. W W Norton & Co Inc, 1996.
Price: US$169.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed. First Edition. SIGNED by Richard Dawkins AND Lalla Ward. Flat signatures. MInimal wear and handling. Pages are clean and intact.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.