Life and Habit

Trubner & Co., London, 1878. Second edition. . 8vo, 307pp. A good hardback copy. Edges foxed. Gift inscription. .

London: A. C. Fitfield, 1916. Later edition. Hardcover. Good/no jacket. Harold Monro's copy, with his pencil signature and date on the fly leaf. Monro was a poet and the owner of The Poetry Bookshop in London. 1916, later edition of this work, published as part of the publisher's 'Complete Samuel Butler' series. Hardcover, original red cloth. Spine faded… Read more about this item

Jonathan Cape 1935. Octavo, navy blue/black cloth boards with black lettering in white label to spine, x + 310pp, VG+ (label residue to front pastedown, bookseller label to fep, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (browning to spine & edges, v slight bruising to spine extrems)

London,: Trubner,, 1878. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth slightly marked with some damp-wrinkling, slightly shaken otherwise very good. Short inscription to endpaper.

Trubner & Co., 1878. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1878. No Edition Remarks. 307 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Brown cloth. Ex-library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Front endpapers are removed. Thumb-marking present. Sticker to rear pastedown. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to hinges and gutters, leaving netting exposed.… Read more about this item

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Hardcover. Good.

A.C. Fifield, 1916. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1916. 310 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Rough cut pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, creased corners and foxing. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine… Read more about this item

London: Trubner and Co, 1878. Book. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Brown cloth lettered in gold on spine (with black rules) and lettered in black (with rules and decorations) on front cover. 307 pages. Book is in very good minus condition with minor signs of wear and/or age. Bottom leading cover… Read more about this item

Cosimo Classics, 2005-12-01. Paperback. Good.

Jonathan Cape, 1924,. 1924. Hardcover. hardback, 8vo, xii,310pp, edges and endpapers foxed, text cleabn and sound, black cloth, some soiling on boards, spine title label browned, Good / no dustwrapper .

Cosimo Classics, 2005-12-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

ReadHowYouWant, 2007-12-20. Paperback. Used:Good.

ReadHowYouWant, 2007-12-20. Paperback. Used:Good.

Kessinger Publishing, 2004-06-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

ReadHowYouWant, 2009-03-31. Paperback. Good.

ReadHowYouWant, 2009-03-31. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, 2004-06. Paperback. Good.

Cambridge University Press, 2009-07-20. 1. Paperback. Used:Good.

Paperback / softback. New. Best remembered today as the author of the novels Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh, Butler argues here that much of inheritance was based on habit making a feature ingrained, to the extent that it could pass between generations; but he was also a firm opponent of natural selection.

ReadHowYouWant, 2009-03-31. Paperback. Good.