Off-Beat Biologist Tapa dura - 1985

Hardback. Good.

The Galton Foundation, 1985. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in fair condition. Signed by author in message. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1150grams, ISBN:0907232051

Cambridge: The Galton Foundation, 1985 Copy in blue cloth on boards in unclipped D/J. Jacket spine lightly sunned. Jacket lightly creased and chipped along edges. Small booksellers label on front paste down. Free of inscriptions. Clean text with b/w plates.

Galton Foundation, Cambridge, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. Professor Parkes writes: With complete failure at school and no more than a second class pass degree as a start, how did I get by? What, I think, saved me was an inquiring mind, an urge to work and entrepreneurial zest, But I was an innovator rather than a consolidator, and once anything I was involved with got off the ground I tended to lose interest and become fertile soil for something else. I was incredibly lucky: World War I robbed me of an education but gave my father the chance to get me to Cambridge without one. I stumbled into reproductive biology in its early days and before this went stale on me, I was stirred up by World War II and the re-birth of the NIMR at Mill Hill. Then came the freezing saga and the olfactory block to conception. Add to these contact with the FPA, the IPPF, WHO, new Societies, new Journals, my move to Cambridge, the Nuffield Unit in Uganda and finally… Leer más

Galton Foundation, 1985. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Handwritten, autographed letter from the author laid in..

The Galton Foundation, 1985. Hardcover. Very good condition in dustjacket. 485pp. ISBN-10 0907232051. ISBN-13: 9780907232056. .