Published by Harmony, 1995
ISBN 10: 0517703939 ISBN 13: 9780517703939
Seller: Isaiah Thomas Books & Prints, Inc., Cotuit, MA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed by author. Fine first edition in fine DJ. ; Signed by Author.
Published by Harmony, 1995
ISBN 10: 0517703939 ISBN 13: 9780517703939
Seller: Colewood Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed 1st edition, 1st printing, Harmony hardcover w/ DJ, 1995. Book is VG+, w/ clean text, tight binding. DJ is VG, w/ light edgewear & small stain to bottom of the inside of spine panel, lightly sunned spine panel. Signed by author on half-title page. Free delivery confirmation. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Harmony Books, New York, 1995
ISBN 10: 0517703939 ISBN 13: 9780517703939
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 480 pages. A collection of essays from this acclaimed paleontologist. A tight near fine copy with some slight tapping to the corners and in a near fine dust jacket with the same tapping to the corners and some sunning to the spine. Signed by Gould on the half title page.
Published by Harmony Books, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1995
ISBN 10: 0517703939 ISBN 13: 9780517703939
Seller: M. W. Cramer Rare and Out Of Print Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. The book is signed by the author on the half title page. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Harmony Books, New York, 1995
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Maps and diagrams (illustrator). First Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR with no other inscription present. Laid in is a Barnes & Noble flyer welcoming Gould to the discussion and signing at which this book was signed. With the '1' in a full number line. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked. Signed.
Published by New York Harmony Books 1995, 1995
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Octavo. Original black quarter cloth, black boards, title to spine in red. With the dust jacket. Illustrations within the text. A fine copy in the jacket. First edition, first printing and a beautiful association copy inscribed by the author on the half title, "For Richard & Jude [Judy], All the best, dear old friends, Steve. Stephen Jay Gould". Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was one of the leading evolutionary biologists of the 20th century. His theory of punctuated equilibria challenged the idea that evolution is a slow and constant accumulation of changes, pointing out that instead it often occurs in rapid bursts of speciation followed by periods of stasis. He vocally defended teaching of evolution in schools and was a leading critic of sociobiology, which he saw as providing a pseudoscientific basis for discrimination. But he was best known as a popular science writer, penning three hundred essays that were originally published in Natural History Magazine. Dinosaur in a Haystack collects thirty-four of these essays. The title piece discusses how rates of fossil survival influence theories of mass extinction, and "Dinomania", his review of the film Jurassic Park, and analyses the explosion of interest in dinosaurs during the 1980s and 90s: "dinosaurs were just as big, as fierce, and as extinct forty years ago, but only a few nerdy kids, and even fewer professional palaentologists, gave a damn about them. why now and not before?" Richard Milner and Gould were childhood friends, and Richard eventually became a historian of science and Gould's editor at Natural History Magazine. "In 1953, two sixth graders in Bayside, Queens, became best friends after they discovered their shared passions for Gilbert & Sullivan operas, dinosaurs, the American Museum of Natural History and Charles Darwin. In their pantheon of heroes, Darwin ranked above even Joe DiMaggio. Their classmates, of course, considered them geeks and bestowed appropriate nicknames: Fossilface and Dino. Fossilface grew up to become an evolutionary biologist better known as Stephen Jay Gould" (Tierney, "Darwin the Comedian", The New York Times, 9 February, 2009).