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Paperback. Very Good.

Norwalk: The Easton Press., 1957. Hardcover. NEW. These Easton Press books are fully leather bound with beautiful covers and contain gorgeous and rich silk moire endpapers. Features: Bound in fine genuine leather with 22 karat gold decorations, all page edges gilded with 22 karat gold, raised spine hubs, sewn-in satin ribbon bookmarks, high quality paper, silk moire endpapers, sewn pages for strength and durability.  Easton Press books are issued without dust jackets. This copy is in NEW condition. Publsiher's 4-page note pamphlet for this title is included.

New York: Heritage Press, 1957. Full beige cloth with brown decorative border and lettering. Spine slightly darkened from handling. Newsletter slip which describes this work is laid in. Book in excellent condition. Binding tight. Pages clean. xvi + 489pp. Slipcase shows small wear around corners and sticker removed from bottom of spine on slipcase. Overall a VERY GOOD PLUS houseed in a GOOD slipcase. . Full Cloth. Near Fine. Illus. by Robert Gibbings. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover.

Cambridge, England: Limited Editions Club, 1956. First edition thus. Hardcover. 489 pages. Number 1332 from an edition of 1500 copies. An earlier book from Darwin who wrote the classic "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life." Features an introduction by Gavin De Beer. Includes black and white illustrations of Robert Gibbings. A tight very good copy in cloth boards with a faint stain to the base of the spine in a very good glassine dust jacket with some toning to the spine and some other wear and in a very good plus slipcase with some light wear and a faint stain to the bottom edge and with laid in newsletter for the Limited Editions Club.

Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1956. Hardcover. Foxing to bulked text fore-edge and mostly to first and last few pages; slight soiling to the spine of the book. Very Good in a Very Good slipcase. Robert Gibbings. Tall quarto (7-1/2" x 12") bound in full sailcloth stamped in brown with a native tapa design; 490 pages. Introduction by Sir Gavin de Beer. Illustrated with text wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. Copy #323 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

London, New York, Melbourne, Ward, Lock and Co., John Murray, 1889.Original pictorial green cloth (damaged). With portrait and 15 plates. XIX,,381 pp. + booklist of 14 pp.From the corrected and enlarged edition of 1845. - The first major scientific work by Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882). As a young man, he accompanied HMS Beagle on her voyage around the world (1831-1836). Darwin's many excursions ashore, particulary into the Andes and on the Galápagos Islands, led him to develop his theory of the evolution of the species. Throughout the trip, he had sent back reports and speciments to Henslow in England, and by the time of his return, he had earned a reputation as one of the nation's foremost naturalists. - A classic travel-account.P.M.M. 344b.