Evolution Modern Synthesis, First Edition (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A hardcover non-fiction in fair condition. Pages are clean and bright, with pencil underlinings on a few pages. Foxing and tanning to the edges of the text block. Ex-library copy with usual markings and labels. The cover shows a few stains and a broken spine repaired with tapes.

Paper covers. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st edition. Scarcely used; no inscriptions Weight: 1 Language: English.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First American edition. First American Edition. Good. A few light pencil marks. Binding solid; shelf wear to edges. Evidence of label removed from rear pastedown.

Condition: Good. 645, . . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, spine faded, some minor marking to front board. Endpapers partly browned. Withdrawn from an institutional library, with a few neat ink stamps. Good. First US edition of this important and influential work, in which Huxley presented his vision of a modern synthesis of evolutionary biology.

FIRST EDITION, LACKS D/W, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained green- faded, 645pp, VG (light bruising & moderate rubbing to spine & board edges/extrems, light tanning/fading & foxing to spine, light to moderate staining to boards, heavy tanning & light soiling to page edges, light tanning to eps, light cracking to gutters, prev. owner's name in ink & prev. bookseller's sm label to ffep, minor pencil markings & annotation to pages throughout- unobtrusive).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Name of the previous owner. Heavy book may require extra postage. Unless posted within South Africa. There is gilt on the spine of the book. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and minor marks. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Name of the previous owner. Publication of 645 pages. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. Internally the pages are immaculately clean and complete. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Publisher's green cloth, thick 8vo, 642pp., Light wear to boards. Contents are clean with light toning and foxing. DJ with some edge wear, toning, light soiling, creasing. Owner name to end paper. A truly classic work in the field of evolutionary science. Sir Julian Huxley (1887-1975), an English evolutionary biologist, was a prolific author and the leading figure in the mid-twentieth century effort to develop the modern synthesis of evolutionary theory. He was the first director of UNESCO, a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund, and the recipient of UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for the popularization of science in 1953, the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society in 1956, and the Darwin-Wallace Medal of the Linnean Society in 1958. He was also the elder brother of writer Aldous Huxley and the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, the Victorian biologist who was one of Charles Darwin's most noted supporters.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 840 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Evolution. The Modern Synthesis. Julian Huxley. [1942] apparent first American printing; Harper; good to very good jacketed hardcover. Clean green cloth with crisp gold text on spine; sharp corners with mild normal wear to spine extremes. Tight and square; unmarked internally. Jacket is housed in archival cover; about good with typical rubbing, handling wear, a few closed tears, and some jaggedness. A very cool first edition for the collector and/or reader.

Condition: Good. LONDON: George Allen & Unwin 1942. 1st edition. Hardcover 8vo 645 pgs. Near very good in near good dust jacket. Lime green cloth. Spine ends bumped. White color to bottom edge of covers. Ink owner's name top of front endpaper. Contents clean and binding sound. Errata slip bound in at pg 343. Jacket edgeworn, chipped, soiled and spine is toned and rubbed. (Evolution, Biology) Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Green cloth, very slightly blotchy, otherwise minimal wear to boards. Slight age-toning to edges of the page block, text clean, not inscribed. Jacket with yellow background (titles in green), some faded area and darkened on the spine. text very clean , appears unmarked. Will incur some extra postage/insurance (at cost) outside the UK. NOT suitable for international economy due to value.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First Edition. 645 pp, bound in original green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Brief gift inscription dated Christmas, 1942, on front free endpaper, minor staining to bottom edge of text block (not affecting interior), else a fine copy. In a moderately soiled but complete original dust jacket. "Evolution: the Modern Synthesis (1942), was an expansion of [Huxley's] 1936 British Association address 'Natural selection and evolutionary progress'. The title of the book linked the author's name with the term 'synthesis', and thus with this important phase in the development of evolutionary biology, for it was in the thirties that the new knowledge of the genetics of populations and of mutation were being brought into productive union with the doctrine of natural selection.The text is packed with information, and although Huxley had trained and carried out research as a zoologist, the work is noteworthy for the breadth of treatment and balance between the plant and animal kingdoms. Attending to plants as well as animals was just one example of the way in which his eclectic approach allowed him to adopt an open position on the significance of different sources of variation and the extent of gradualist evolution and by implication the extent of the creative action of natural selection" (ODNB).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition; a Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket. From the library of noted evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould. A handsome copy of this treatise on Evolution from one of the leading evolutionary scientists of the 20th century; this book scarce in the first printing, particularly with the original jacket. The book is in very good condition with a square, tight binding and pages free from markings; the book does show some light staining to the text block, some mild rubbing and bumping to the edges and corners, and some inconspicuous spotting to the boards; housed in a completely intact, original jacket that shows some age-darkening to the spine and edges with some alternate areas of sunning, and some light staining and soiling to the panels and spine. Overall, a very presentable and collectible copy with a unique association to Gould. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.