Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms
by Gould, Stephen Jay
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0224050435
- ISBN 13
- 9780224050432
- Seller
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Kingscliff, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Jonathan Cape. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 0224050435 . Edges lightly foxed. Remnants of old adhesive tape to verso of jacket. Previous owner's neat name ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 422 pages .
Synopsis
Stephen Jay Gould is the Alexander Agassiz professor of zoology and professor of geology at Harvard and the Vincent Astor visiting professor of biology at New York University. Recent books include Full House, Dinosaur in a Haystack and Questioning the Millennium .He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and New York City. From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Haymes & Co. (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B5866
- Title
- Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms
- Author
- Gould, Stephen Jay
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0224050435
- ISBN 13
- 9780224050432
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- 0224050435, Essays, Natural History
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Haymes & Co.
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Verso
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- Jacket
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- Edges
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...