Niewczesny pogrzeb Darwina: Wybor esejow
Panstwowy Instytut Wydawnixzy, 1991. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Item #217554
ISBN: 8306020812
342 pages. Essays collected from several of Gould's books, translated into Polish. Edited by Antoni Hoffman and translated by Nina Kancewicz-Hoffman. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Inscribed by the editor to the author: 'To Steve, with a great many of truly best wishes. Tony.' From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution, Stephen Jay Gould, with a posthumous tipped in bookplate indicating the provenance. *** Intellectually, Gould understood the true nature of these bookplates, but the book collector in him appreciated them. In his essay 'A Seahorse for All Races' Gould writes about one of his prized possessions, a book from Charles Dickens' library: 'Dickens made no annotations, but a bookplate on the cover, presumably inserted as a come-on for a sale after Dickens' death in 1870, does prove that [he] kept and shelved the book.' *** We offer our Gould bookplates, printed letterpress in two colors, in the same spirit.
Price: $40.00