Eternal Quest: The Story of the Great Naturalists by Adams, Alexander B - 1969

G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 9x6x1. Very good hardcover with dust jacket. The text is clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelf wear with minor rubbing. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows good with some rubbing, scuffing and small tears.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

G. P. Putnam's Sons. Used - Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. Book Club edition. Stamped on endpage.

G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Second printing, book club edition. Edges a bit rubbed, page edges a tad foxed, else a clean, tight copy in jacket with some edge wear, chips, and a sunned spine panel.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Nearly fine copy in very good dust jacket. 1969. BC ed.. hardcover. 8vo, 509 pp. .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. 8vo size clothbound hardcover (tan boards over red spine,) 509 pages plus a center section of black and white illustrations on glossy stock; spring green endpapers. From jacket: "...unfolds in this book the lives of the great naturalists, the inspiring, stranger-than-fiction account of man's search for his place in the natural world. This biographical gallery of the worlds' most important scientific thinkers encompasses the overthrow of prescientific dogmas and superstitions and the battle against ignorance waged by Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Vesalius, Newton and Harvey, and then focuses on the naturalists of the 18th and 19th centuries, those far seeing men who laid the foundations of natural history as we know it today." Jacket has sunned spine, chipping to top and bottom of spine and two tears on front of jacket, small area of shelf soil and some light foxing on bottom of book; faded red topstain. There is a loose thread to front of… Read More

New York: G. P Putnam's Sons, 1969. First Edition. 1st Printing. Linen. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing. Hard cover 8vo in cream linen w/black birds dec., red cloth spine w/gold titles. Fine book in About Very Good unclipped DJ w/tears and chips, soiled rear panel, interior at crown mended w/what looks like magazine photo of dog, now hidden by clear protective cover. 509pp inc. Notes, Bibliography, Appendix, Index; illustrated in chapter headpiece drawings, photos and reproductions on glossy paper.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. HC. good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover) reviewers note few pages. B&W illustrations. The lives of the great naturalists. 509pp.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. (1969), 509pp, illus., ivory cloth w/ red spine, black design & lettering, light shlfwear to cover, slight edgewear to dj, contents clean.. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good -.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. Second Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Orange and tan cloth, lettered/illus. in gilt and black. Very slight shelf wear, virtually as issued. Stated 2nd impression on title pg. in stated "Book Club Edition" dust jacket shows several closed edge tears and shows lightly sunned spine panel, with small blank sticker on lower spine (not ex-library). 509 pp., b&w plates..

G. P. Putnam's Sons, January 1969. Book Club. Cloth . Good/Poor. [6' x 9 & 1/4'] In jacket that is coming apart at the flap folds and re-enforced with darkened tape at base of spine with soiling & stains. More stains on fore-edge. Textblock top edge tinted rose red. Bright red cloth covered spine with gold (and stained) lettering. Beige cloth covered boards. Lime green end papers. Bookplate affixed to front free end page. Jacket design by Sam Salant. [509 pages]