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Full House: The Spread of Excellence From Plato To Darwin. [1st U.S. hardcover].
by Gould, Stephen Jay
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/in Fine dj. (Small bookplate else a clean/tight/bright copy: no writings. Jacket complete/clean/crisp, no tears).
- ISBN 10
- 0517703947
- ISBN 13
- 9780517703946
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About This Item
New York. Harmony Books/Crown Publishing. (c1996). HARDCOVER.. Near Fine/in Fine dj. (Small bookplate else a clean/tight/bright copy: no writings. Jacket complete/clean/crisp, no tears). Octavo. (8vo.) NOT a remainder or book club. 36 line figures: graphs & tables. xii. + 244pp. Bibliography & Index. Black boards & gilt stamped, black cloth back. Embossed jacket. First Edition so stated. 1st Printing per print number line. Jacket front embossed. Small bookplate else covers & text clean/tight, no spine creasing. Jacket complete/clean/crisp, no tears.
Synopsis
Stephen Jay Gould is an internationally renowned evolutionary biologist and best-selling author, equally respected by academic and general interest readers. His books for the general reader include seven collections of essays (written for his monthly column in Natural History magazine, which he has done for over twenty years) and three original nonfiction works. Gould is the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard and the Curator for Invertebrate Paleontology in the University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and New York City. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Booktopia
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- 8030417
- Title
- Full House: The Spread of Excellence From Plato To Darwin. [1st U.S. hardcover].
- Author
- Gould, Stephen Jay
- Format/Binding
- HARDCOVER.
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine/in Fine dj. (Small bookplate else a clean/tight/bright copy: no writings. Jacket complete/clean/crisp, no tears).
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0517703947
- ISBN 13
- 9780517703946
- Publisher
- Harmony Books/Crown Publishing.
- Place of Publication
- New York.
- Date Published
- (c1996).
- Pages
- xii. + 244pp.
- Keywords
- Natural History Science Stephen Jay Gould Culture Evolution
- Size
- Octavo. (8vo.)
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