The World of Life: A Manifestation of Creative Power, Directive Mind and Ultimate Purpose
by WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
G. Bell and Sons 1911. FIRST EDITION, super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, blind rule & lettering to boards, deckled page edges, xvi + 408pp, illus, VG- (moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate to heavy soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, prev. owner's name to ffep, frontispiece roughly removed, light foxing to prelims & terminalsheavy cracking to gutters)
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- Title
- The World of Life: A Manifestation of Creative Power, Directive Mind and Ultimate Purpose
- Author
- WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- G. Bell and Sons 1911
- Keywords
- first editions philosophy evolution anthropology species plants animals Alfred Russel Wallace
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- FFEP
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- Buckram
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- Gilt
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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