On the Origin of Species: or, The Causes of the Phenomena of organic nature. A Course of Six Lectures to Working Men by Thomas H. Huxley (1825-1895)

The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1968. Paperback. Good. Good paperback. Previous owner's name on end paper, pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Covers show edge wear with creases and rubbing.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1968-01-01. Paperback. Good. Paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Univ of Michigan Press. Ann Arbor., 1968. Pages: 144; Weight: 6.6oz; Size: 8.3" x 5.5" x 0.4". Cover has minor rubbing and edgewear, scattered underlining in pen and a few bent corners inside, otherwise clean, tight.. Good. Soft Cover. . . .

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1878. Reprint Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. A Very Good copy (owner's name) in green cloth lettered in gold of this 1878 printing. Uniform light tanning at the outer edges of the text block, sound binding, clean/unmarked within. (Not ex-library.)

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1883. No Statement of Printing. . Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. A Good copy in decorated brown cloth lettered in gold. Early Sandwich Library Association inside the front cover, and spine label shadow. Mild cover soiling, and scattered foxing to the paper, but no prior owner's marks. A sound reading copy of this hardcover 1883 edition.

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1877. Title page dated 1877. Worn. Essays in support of Darwin's theories, presented in plain language. Brown cloth, 150 pages plus publisher's ads. Covers have considerable surface loss from scuffing or silverfish damage, hinges internally very lightly cracked but secure, text block sound, pages age-darkened and speckled but readily legible, initials on front free endpaper, no other markings.. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895. 150 pp. Original dark orange cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Very bright and clean. Corners bumped. Wear to spine ends. Contents very nice.. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1863. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [5], 4-150, [8] (including 6 unnumbered pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Dark green pebbled cloth with paper label on the spine, light yellow endpapers and pastedowns. A few in-text diagrams and illustrations. Contemporary owner's name and date written on free front endpaper (George R. Brush, a surgeon in the US Navy from the time of the Civil War until his death in 1895), tiny collector's sticker on the front pastedown, and a brief inscription on the final page indicating Brush completed reading the book on May 29, 1865 on board the steamship Guatemala near Puntarenas with Professor Seebach on board (Karl von Seebach was a well-known geologist at Gottingen who published work on Central American volcanos and was presumably returning from the extended trip he made to perform this research). ADB: Seebach, Karl Albert Ludwig von; Oxford DNB, Adrian Desmond, "Huxley, Thomas Henry"; Suffolk County News… Read More

1863. HUXLEY, Thomas H. ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES: or, the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature. A Course of Six Lectures to Working Men. NY, D. Appleton, 1863. 8vo. 150pp. + [3]ff. ads. First American edition. Pebbled cloth with paper spine label. Wear to extremities; light rubbing; chips to label; internally fine but for two faint library stamps on front pastedown. Bookplate. Huxley was Professor of Natural History at the Jermyn Street School of Mines. Uncommon.