on the origin of species, darwin, First Edition

Book Description: Hard cover. Folding lithographed diagram. ix, [1], 502 pp., 32 pp. of ads at end, dated June 1859. 8vo, orig. green cloth (binding variant a), stamped in blind & gilt (head of spine with slightest wear, lower hinge a little cracked), uncut. London: J. Murray,1859. First edition, and an outstandingly fine and fresh copy, of "the most influential scientific work of the nineteenth century."–Horblit 23b. This copy has Freeman’s binding variant a. This is a rather historic copy in the history of book collecting. It comes from the library of Ian Fleming, the author of several well-known novels. Our copy is housed in one of Fleming’s characteristic boxes with his arms in gilt on the upper cover. It was Fleming who conceived the idea of collecting milestones of progress in the nineteenth century and asked Percy Muir, the distinguished bookseller, to assist him. This concept of collecting "important" books, regardless of subject, marks the beginning of a style of collecting which has been canonized, for better or worse, by the book Printing and the Mind of Man. See Muir’s Minding My Own Business (1956) for an account of Ian Fleming and his "taste and technique" of book collecting. Fine copy. Binder’s ticket of Edmonds & Remnants on rear paste-down. ? Dibner, Heralds of Science, 199. Evans, Exhibition of First Editions of Epochal Achievements in the History of Science (1934), 110. Freeman 373. Garrison-Morton 220. Grolier Club, One Hundred Books Famous in Medicine, 70b. Printing & the Mind of Man 344b. Bookseller Inventory # JHABES2502

Book Description: John Murray, London, 1859. hardcover. Book Condition: near fine. First. "The most important biological book ever written. Fairly common in libraries, but is much sought after and commands a far higher price than any other of Darwin's works". Freeman 373; PMM 344; Grolier/Horblit 23b; G-M 220; Todd v.9, 78. Illustrated with 1 folding diagram. ix, [1], 502pp. + 32pp of Murray's ads dated June 1859. Thick 8vo, original royal green cloth; decorative blind-stamped covers and gilt-stamped spine (spine ends and corners are just a bit soft; some minor thumbing of page edges; rear inner hinge a bit weak; original salmon end papers are rubbed, half title and title pages are creased, but still a very clean and tight copy). Housed in a folding cloth folio inside a slipcase with leather spine label. London: John Murray, 1859. An excellent, unsophisticated copy of the true first edition with "speceies" mis-spelled on page 20, and Freeman's earlier "variant a" binding. Bookseller Inventory # 222721

Book Description: John Murray, 1859. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo. ix, [i], 502 pp. With 1 folding plate. Half-morocco over marbled boards of the period. An excellent copy inscribed by Leonard Darwin, Charles Darwin's son, with related material bound in at the end, including a 2-page letter signed by Darwin, and an unrecorded offprint of a paper on Darwin's work. Preserved in a half-morocco solander box (see provenance). Bookseller Inventory # 13831

Book Description: John Murray, London, 1859. EvolutionDarwin, Charles (1809-82). On the origin of species by means of natural selection. ix, 502pp., plus 32-page publisher's catalogue dated June 1859. Folding diagram. London: John Murray, 1859. 200 x 123 mm. Original green cloth, hinges very skillfully repaired. Minor foxing, but a fine, bright copy, preserved in a quarter morocco slipcase. 19th century bookplate of William Frederick Vernon. First Edition. Although the idea of species evolution can be traced as far back as the ancient Greek belief in the "great chain of being," Darwin's great achievement was to make this centuries-old "underground" concept acceptable to the scientific community by cogently arguing for the existence of a viable mechanism-natural selection-by which new species evolve over vast periods of time. There is only one issue of the first edition. While three binding and advertisement variants have been identified, no priority has been established. 1,250 copies were printed, of which about 1,170 were available for sale; the remainder consisted of 12 author's copies, 41 review copies, 5 copyright copies, and at least 20 presentation copies. Freeman 373. Dibner 199. Horblit 23b. Printing and the Mind of Man 344b. Norman 593. Bookseller Inventory # 41425

Book Description: London: John Murray, 1859, 1859. Octavo (187 × 110 mm). Contemporary green calf, spine elaborately gilt in compartments, red morocco label, patterned sides, marbled endpapers and edges. In a green half morocco solander case. Lightly rubbed, spine tanned, contents lightly toned, short tear at crease of folding diagram. An excellent copy. Folding diagram. Half-title present, this copy bound without ads as often. First edition of "the most influential scientific work of the 19th century" (Horblit) and "the most important biological book ever written" (Freeman), one of 1,250 copies. "The publication of the Origin of species ushered in a new era in our thinking about the nature of man. The intellectual revolution it caused and the impact it had on man's concept of himself and the world were greater than those caused by the works of Copernicus, Newton, and the great physicists of more recent times Every modern discussion of man's future, the population explosion, the struggle for existence, the purpose of man and the universe, and man's place in nature rests on Darwin" (Ernst Mayr). This copy contains the engraved bookplate of zoologist Brundson Yapp (1909–1990). Freeman 373. Bookseller Inventory # 60850

Book Description: London: John Murray, 1859. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. 8vo, rebound in modern full green straight-grained morocco, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, 5 raised bands, marbled endpapers. Housed in a morocco and cloth slipcase. ix,[1], 502 + 32 ad pp. Two quotations on the verso of the half-title; misprint "speceies" on p.20, line 11. Complete with inserted advertisements at rear, dated June 1859, text not surrounded by a frame. There is light darkening to contents, half-title and title with faint wear to fore-edges. A very fine copy of "certainly the most important biological book ever written" (Freeman). Bookseller Inventory # ABE-1208640848

Book Description: London: John Murray, 1869, 1869. Octavo. Original green fine sand-grain cloth, titles to spine gilt, decorative panels blocked in blind to sides, black endpapers: Freeman's variant "c" binding. Housed in a dark green quarter morocco solander box. Extremities rubbed, corners just worn, inner hinges cracked but holding, some quires starting, with resultant proud fore-edges slightly frayed; overall a little shaken, but a good copy. Folding lithographic diagram. Bound without the advertisements sometimes found in other copies. Modern bookplate of Nils Fries (1912–1994) professor of physiological and anatomical botany at Uppsala University, with his pencilled note at back noting his acquisition of the book in Sweden, 21 June 1952. Fifth edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the publisher's clerk, "From the author", on the half-title, as usual. This edition sees the first use by Darwin of Herbert Spencer's phrase "survival of the fittest", appearing in the heading of chapter IV and in the text. Darwin had expressed concern about the price of his book after learning that Lancashire labourers were forced to club together to be able to afford a copy. John Murray therefore produced two versions of the fifth edition: the cheaper volume sold for 7/6 and used a very small typeface; this copy is of the standard version, which continued to be sold for 15 shillings. Freeman 387. Bookseller Inventory # 41953

Book Description: London, Murray, 1860. ix,502p.+ advertisements 50pages Murray dated Jan. 1860. original green cloth gilt decorated (a bit rubbed, some slight foxing. Old owner's entrie on titlepage.) In very good condition. in it's original cloth binding. with binder's label. : " Bound by Edmonds & Remnants London". (At the last flyleave.) Second edition. (Freeman 376 c).with fifth thousand on titlepage. Dibner Heralds 199. G. & M. nr. 220. Horblit 23 b. P.M.M. 344b ( all first ed.) The theory of evolution. A good copy of the sec. ed. Dibner :"This, the most important single work in science, brought man to his true place in nature". In very good condition. Bookseller Inventory # 15680

Book Description: New York: D. Appleton, 1860, 1860. First American Edition; first issue. Minor scattered foxing and spotting; small label removed from the top corner of the front paste-down; fraying at the extremities strengthened; an excellent copy. Bookseller Inventory # 25274

Book Description: London: John Murray, 1860. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. SECOND EDITION. Original green cloth. Some rubbing, light wear to spine ends. Near fine. Before publication of the Origin, Darwin wrote to his publisher, "It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public." The first edition of 1250 copies sold out immediately; this second edition of 3750 copies was issued soon thereafter. Bookseller Inventory # ABE-3552990122

Book Description: London John Murray 1860, 1860. Fifth thousand, one of 3000 copies printed only, after the 1250 which were printed by Murray of the first issue. Folding lithographed diagram by W. West, half title with quotations from Whewell and Bacon and Butler on verso, 32-page publisher's catalogue bound at end. 8vo, publisherÕs original green cloth gilt. ix, 502, index, [32] ads (dated January 1860). A fine, very pleasing and clean copy in excellent state with inner hinges in very nice condition, the paper fresh and unspotted and the book in absolutely original condition. THE MOST IMPORTANT WORK OF SCIENCE PUBLISHED IN THE 19TH CENTURY AND THE MOST IMPORTANT WORK OF BIOLOGY EVER PENNED. Printed from standing type of the first edition, with a number of resettings, Darwin himself considered that this edition was merely corrected, though the next printing, in 1861, was called the Third edition. A very nice and completely unsophisticated copy of "the most influential scientific work of the nineteenth century" and "the most important biological work ever written" (Horblit, Freeman). Darwin's elaboration of the theory of natural selection laid the groundwork for the controversy over the evolution of man, and with only slight modification by such scientists as Stephen Jay Gould, Darwin's ideas remain the umbra under which most current biological research is conducted. The repercussions of DarwinÕs theory on religious, scientific, sociological and philosophical thought was the result of what Garrison considered Òthe most wonderful piece of sythesis in the history of science.Ó In this first edition Darwin brought man to his true place in nature and accomplished a revolution. Darwin had intended the book to be an abstract of his 'big book' on transmutation, of which only the first part (VARIATION UNDER DOMESTICATION, 1868) was published in his lifetime. The first edition of ÒOriginÓ had a print run of only 1250 copies and was sold out in a day. No second issue of the first edition was undertaken and the book was republished again in a printing of only 3000 copies literally within days of the first issuance. Bookseller Inventory # 23938

Book Description: Murray, 1860. Second edition, second issue as usual, dated 1860. Original publisher’s green cloth, titled in gilt to the spine with blind stamped decoration to the covers, brown coated endpapers. 32pp of adverts dated January 1860. Single fold-out diagram. A very good copy indeed, which is bright and fresh with a small, invisible split to the head of the spine and a minor abrasion to the front endpaper. Internally clean with tight hinges and just a little looseness between some sections. A well preserved copy of a fragile book. Almost universally regarded as the most important scientific book of the nineteenth century."Darwin not only drew an entirely new picture of the workings of organic nature; he revolutionised our methods of thinking and our outlook on the natural order of things. The recognition that constant change is the order of the universe had been finally established and a vast step forward in the uniformity of nature had been taken" (PMM).For the second edition, "The misprint 'speceies' is corrected and the whale-bear story diluted, an alteration which Darwin later regretted, although he never restored the full text" (Freeman). Freeman 374, PMM 344b (first edition). Bookseller Inventory # 29636

Book Description: John Murray, 1861. folding chart, half-title present, edges of text lightly browned, soiled at foot of title-page, pp.xix, [i] (blank), 538, [2], 8vo., original wavy-grain green cloth, by Edmonds and Remnant, with their ticket, extremities rubbed, backstrip gilt lettered direct; sides blind panelled with wide stamped border, chalked brown endpapers, hinges strengthened and neat repairs to head and tail of spine, good The first edition to be fully revised, and the first edition to contain ‘An Historical Sketch of the Recent Progress of Opinion on the Origin of Species’ (pp.xiii-xix). (Freeman 381). Bookseller Inventory # 47516

Book Description: New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1860. 8vo. Original brown blindstamped cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Spine a bit faded and with weak spots. Top of spine only minimally frayed. 432 pp. (incl. htitle). and 1 folded lithographed plate. With a dampstain starting at title then going weaker, increasing at the last ab. 25 leaves. It mostly effects upper margin. Otherwise fine and clean. Very scarce first American edition (third issue) of one of the most importent books ever printed. The "Origin" started the greatest of all intellectual revolutions in the history of mankind."In January 1860, Asa Gray was arranging for an American issue of the first edition to be published in Boston, but two New York houses, Appleton and Harpers, were also considering it. The former got their edition out in the middle of January and Harpers withdrew. Darwin wrote in his diary for May 22nd that there was 2,500 copies, but there were 4 separate printings in 1860 and it is not clear whether this figure refers to the first alone." (Freeman). This third issue has "Revised Edition" on the titlepage and 3 quotations on the verso of the halftitle (just like the second issue). The text is identical with the first edition, London 1859. - Freeman No 379. Bookseller Inventory # 36581

Book Description: by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Pub. John Murray, 1866. 4th edn. with additions & corrections. (8th thousand). pp. xxi + 593 inc. index. Green cloth, blind ruled patterned borders on cvrs., gilt titling & decor. bkstrip., Green eps. 7 3/4 x 5". (Eps. repr'd at hinges - light foxing prelims & spotting foredge pp.) v. nice bright copy. rare Freeman: 385. Variant b, but 3 gilt rules below imprint on spine. & no advertisements inserted. "Origin" and "Species" in italics on spine, 1 of 1500 copies, with extensive alterations, including alteration of the date of publication of the 1st edition on verso of half-title. Bookseller Inventory # 235880

Book Description: D. Appleton and Company,, New York:, 1860. First U.S. edition, third issue with "Revised edition" on title page. Green textured cloth, spine titled in gilt, boards decoratively stamped in blind. Magazine article on Darwin adhered to rear pastedown, inked name to front free endpaper, light chipping to upper spine, spine gilt dull, overall near fine with hinges unbroken and strong in custom mylar cover. Freeman 379. Bookseller Inventory # Embry 89839

Book Description: D. Appleton & Company, New York, 1860. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo. Fold out diagram on p 108. Freeman 379. 432 pp. Original blind stamped pebble cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Corners bumped; head and heel of spine frayed; 1/2? split of cloth to front joint; large dampstain to first several leaves, heavy foxing to first and last several leaves; interior occasionally foxed; previous owner?s name inked in corner of front pastedown, another owner?s small label on front free endpaper. Bookseller Inventory # 35807

Book Description: John Murray [through 1866], London, 1859. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Fourth Edition, with additions and corrections, Eighth Thousand. 8vo in 12's: xxi,[1],593pp, with folding lithographed diagram by William West, charting Darwin's views of possible sequences of evolution. Original green sand-grain cloth, spine lettered in gilt, covers with decorative panels blocked in blind, green clay-coated end papers, edges untrimmed (binding variant b, with spine imprint L of LONDON over H of JOHN, one gilt rule below imprint). An excellent copy, very lightly read (some pages still uncut), gilt bright; internally fine, the text clean and fresh, with no writing, foxing or browning aside from spotting to the single page facing the half-time (fly leaf verso). Freeman 385. PMM 530b [describing the first edition of 1859]. Grolier, 100 Books Medicine, 70B, and Science, 23b. Only 1500 copies of the Fourth Edition were printed, making this one of the scarcer editions of Darwin's masterpiece and perhaps the most important book of biology ever written. According to Freeman, the fourth edition was extensively altered, and "it is in this one that the date of the first edition, as given on the verso of the half title, is corrected from October 1st to November 24th. Darwin's own copy, at Cambridge, is in a case of the same pattern as those of the first three editions, but all other copies, although the same in general, have origin and species in italic [on the spine]; the blind stamping on both boards is new and the whole volume is a little shorter." Note: With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Bookseller Inventory # BB0881

Book Description: New York: D. Appleton, 1860, 1860. First American Edition; second issue. Some foxing and spotting; fraying at the extremities; contemporary owner's inscription; about very good. Bookseller Inventory # 27894

Book Description: John Murray, London, 1872. Green Buckram. Book Condition: Very Good. Sixth Edition. 8vo. The sixth edition with 'Twelfth Thousand' to the title page. This is catalogued as Freeman 392 and is identical to that with 'Eleventh Thousand' (Freeman 391) on the title page, but freeman suggests that that with 'Twelfth Thousand' is less common. He writes of the sixth edition "It is in this edition that the word 'evolution' occurs for the first time" and of the number printed he adds "The sixth edition, which is usually regarded as the last, appeared in February 1872. Murray's accounts show that 3,000 copies were printed, but this total presumably included both those with eleventh thousand on the title page and those with twelfth, the latter being notably less common"; pp. xxi, [i], 458, fold-out chart. Publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine, and blind stamped decoration to boards, very good with some general wear and rubbing, professionally and inconspicuously repaired chip to the head of the spine, corners slightly worn, very slight split in cloth to foot of front joint, gilt still bright. Contents clean and tight, original brown end papers, with a neat contemporay signature to the front free end paper, which also has a light crease, slight toning to pages mostly to edges, slight reading wear, no inscriptions. A very good copy. Freeman 392. Bookseller Inventory # 017963

Book Description: D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1883. Brown Cloth. Book Condition: Very Good. Folding Chart (illustrator). Sixth Edition, Revised, American Issue. 458 pp. One volume "New Edition" containing the entire Sixth English Edition, with additions and corrections. No catalogue at end. A very clean, unmarked volume, crisp but aged, possibly unread. Gilt very bright, cloth evenly colored, attractive, despite fraying along top edge of spine with a little loss of facing cloth, and along part of bottom edge. Original yellow endpapers like new, hinges tight. Ownership signature of prominent American neurologist Archibard Church and from his library. Signed by Archibald Church. Bookseller Inventory # 019337

Book Description: John Murray, 1888. 8vo., Sixth Edition, Thirty-Fifth Thousand, with a folding diagram (lightly creased without loss as a result of poor folding), rear free endpaper recto lightly spotted; original arches-style binding of green cloth, decorative gilt back, chocolate endpapers, uncut, upper hinge tender (but binding entirely sound), backstrip very slightly dulled (but all gilt bright and clear), an unusually bright, clean, crisp copy with no sign of the usual age-staining or bruising. With 32pp publisher's catalogue (dated February 1888) bound in at end. The sixth is generally held to be the last significant edition, containing as it does Darwin's final major corrections and revisions. Published in 1872, it is the first edition with the title The Origin of Species, and includes among many other revisions a new chapter (VII) inserted to confute the views of the Catholic biologist St. George Mivart. There is a glossary, and the word 'evolution' is used in the text for the first time. An attractive and desirable copy of the 'most important scientific work of the 19th century' (Horblit) and 'the most important biological book ever written' (Freeman). Scarce in anything like this condition. Freeman (Darwin), 131; Freeman (BNHB), 907. Bookseller Inventory # 15569

Book Description: John Murray, UK, 1884. Cloth. Book Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. John Murray. 1884. 26th Thousand. Sixth edition, with additions & corrections, This 6th edition was the last version that Darwin worked on before he died. 8vo. 432pp. Folding chart. Book is near fine and very bright. In Original green cloth with light rubbing to edges. Very bright boards. Book is very strong and tightly bound. Nice clean contents. Becoming very un-common in such bright tight condition. PLEASE DOUBLE CLICKON IMAGE TO ENLARGE. Digital images available upon request.Ref 6584. Bookseller Inventory # 009058

Book Description: John Murray, London, 1880. hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good+. Very Good+ hardback Sixth Edition, Twenty-Second Thousand in the original green blindstamped cloth binding with gilt lettering, decoration spine. Foldout diagram at p. 90. Mild cover edge wear. Hinges, joints intact. Foxing initial and final leaves. Mild foxing edges. Owner bookplate front paste down, name ffep, title page. 8vo. xxi, [1], 2-458. pp. Freeman 405. Freeman's statement (p.73 Works of Charles Darwin) ".certainly the most important biological book ever written." has stood the test of time. It is hard to overestimate the importance of the work ".Darwin not only drew an entirely new picture of the workings of organic nature; he revolutionized our methods of thinking and our outlook on the natural order of things" (PMM 344b). "The most influential scientific work of the nineteenth century" (Horblit 23b). Norman 100 Books Famous in Medicine 70b. Dibner 199. Garrison-Morton 220. Heirs of Hippocrates 1724. (all referencing the elusive first edition). "I only met Darwin once.It was in '74 that I saw him at the Royal Society Reception (?). He spoke much of Principal Dawson of McGill, for whose work on fossil botany he had a great regard.He was a most kindly old man, of large frame, with great bushy beard and eyebrows. Feb. 28, 1915 William Osler" (quoted in Bibliotheca Osleriana. See entries 1565-1569). Bookseller Inventory # 42858

Book Description: John Murray, London, 1888. Cloth. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Issued Without a Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Sixth edition with additions and corrections to 1872. Thrity fifth thousand. Bit of fraying to the base of the spine. Several uncut pages. One small section 3/8" has been cut from the top of the front free end paper as one might find in a price clipped modern volume. Tips of the boards are a bit bent but a very nice copy nonetheless. With 32pp publisher's catalogue (dated February 1888) bound in at end. The sixth is generally held to be the last significant edition, containing as it does Darwin's final major corrections and revisions. Published in 1872, it is the first edition with the title The Origin of Species, and includes among many other revisions a new chapter (VII) inserted to refute the views of the Catholic biologist St. George Mivart. There is a glossary, and the word 'evolution' is used in the text for the first time. An attractive and desirable copy of the 'most important scientific work of the 19th century' (Horblit) and 'the most important biological book ever written' (Freeman). Bookseller Inventory # 6513

Book Description: Cambridge: Printed at the University Press., Cambridge., 1909. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This copy presented by the syndics of the University Press to ' W.P. SPALDING Esq.' on the occasion of the celebration at Cambridge of the Centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species. portrait frontispiece of Charles Darwin, plate, xxii, 53pp, original quarter vellum with grey printed boards edge fading,corners with little wear , uncut occasional light foxing. Very Good Copy of this Rare Darwin work. Bookseller Inventory # 000052

Book Description: John Murray, 1889. 8vo., Sixth Edition, Thirty-Seventh Thousand, with a folding diagram, neat contemporary signatures on front endpapers; original arches-style binding of green cloth, decorative gilt back, green patterned endpapers, uncut, corners lightly bruised, case a little shaken and upper hinge tender (but binding entirely sound), two pinholes in backstrip (not affecting lettering) else a very good, crisp, clean copy. The sixth is generally held to be the last significant edition, containing as it does Darwin's final major corrections and revisions. Published in 1872, it is the first edition with the title The Origin of Species, and includes among many other revisions a new chapter (VII) inserted to confute the views of the Catholic biologist St. George Mivart. There is a glossary, and the word 'evolution' is used in the text for the first time. The thirty-seventh thousand is unusual in that it rarely carries the usual publisher's catalogue bound in at end. A good copy of the 'most important scientific work of the 19th century' (Horblit) and 'the most important biological book ever written' (Freeman). Scarce in anything like this condition. Freeman (Darwin), 131; Freeman (BNHB), 907. Bookseller Inventory # 17858

Book Description: Lovell, Coryell and Company, USA, 1893. Full-Leather. Book Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. New Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New Edition 1893. This publisher founded in 1893 published this book as a part of it's 100 greatest books. It ceased trading in 1904. Based on the Sixth edition, with additions & corrections, This edition was the last version that Darwin worked on before he died. Includes the important chart. Modern binding in full grain leather and gilt tooling and decorative endpapers. Lovely gift quality. Book is near fine and in wonderful bright condiiton. Nice solid binding. Contents very good indeed. PLEASE DOUBLE CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE. Digital images available upon request. Bookseller Inventory # 004928

Book Description: John Murray, London, 1883. hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Sixth Edition, Reprint with Amendments. 6th Edition with additions and corrections to 1872 (Thirty-Seventh Thousand). Quarter Leather bound. Leather to the spine and to the corners of the cover. Spine is ribbed and pattterned. Front and back boards are sunned and alittle grubby with a slight whirl pattern. First and last couple of pages have age spotting and alittle foxing. Pages are bright and tight. Scans are avaliable please email for more information. Used. Bookseller Inventory # 227802