Charles Darwin Francis Darwin Editor (15 results)

paperback. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 2 volume set. Bound in red cloth. Bindings repaired with tape. Some pages torn. Sold with all faults. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.

Condition: Good. Fourth Thousand in this Form. Hardcover book. Green cloth with gilt titles. 348pp. With portrait frontis. No dustjacket. A Good copy with some foxing to title page and endpapers. slight fraying to top of spine.Previous owner's name to front end paper. Pictures available.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Bound in green cloth with blind-stamped decoration on front cover and gilt lettering on spine, light rubbing to all cover edges, clean tight and unmarked savve for neat gift inscription on front free endpaper, no foxing.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Books are lightly worn from shelf wear and handling, showing only minimal external edge/spine wear. Volumes remain intact, square, and firm. Pages are worn on their edges and are slightly foxing, minimal markings present inside preliminary pages, text and main interiors remain unmarked on both volumes. Binding remains intact and firm. Good reading/collecting copies.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good condition hardcover books, no dust jackets. Two Volume Set. Beautiful gilt lettering on front covers and spine, slightest dulling to spine. Slightest shelf wear to covers. Spine sunned, very slight wear and slightest bumping to spine ends. Top edge of text blocks gilt, other edges rough cut. Slight toning and spotting to text block edges and end papers. Front and rear hinges split or beginning to split in both volumes, webbing exposed in hinges of volume two, binding is firm. All books are individually inspected and described. Never X-Library unless specifically described as such.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 395 pages. 8.75x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. None. A b24-page biography by Darwin's son, followed by a 42-page autobiography by Darwin himself, and 52 pages of reminiscences. The rest if a publication of all the extant letters by Darwin, including those relating to the Galapagos expedition and the writing and publication of The Origin of Species. A clean, unmarked, tight set, free of foxing or other age blemishes.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. Second Edition. Three volumes, complete. Beautiful contemporary 3/4 dark brown leather binding with marbled (mostly red) paper-covered boards. Gilt lettering on spine. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. 6" x 8 3/4." All pages of all volumes, complete. Black-and-white illustrations (each volume has at least one), complete. Vol. I: 395 pages; four illustrations including frontispiece; tipped-in Errata in front. Vol. II: 393 pages; two illustrations including frontistpiece. Vol. III: 418 pages; one frontispiece; Appendices and Index in back. List of Illustrations in front of each volume. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for light age toning, occasional small marks, and occasional foxing. Covers are very clean and intact except for light wear to extremities, slight darkening to top edge of text block, and a small bump on fore-edge of Vol. III's back cover. Marbling on boards, edges of text block, and endpapers features rich, saturated colors and is still vibrant and not rubbed (slight darkening on top edges of text blocks but that is the only notable defect as to the marbling). Each volume and the overall set are Fine. Beautiful set of three volumes containing a biography of Charles Darwin (1809-1882), the eminent English naturalist, biologist, and geologist. Also includes an autobiographical chapter and reprinted letters by Charles. Edited by Francis Darwin (1848-1925), Charles's third son who went on to become a botanist. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 3 volume set. Hardcover. Library stamps and markings. Shelf wear. Gutters weakened. Textblock starting. Edges rubbed. Some pages loose. Scattered markings through out. Sold with all faults. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. 1888.…

Softcover. Octavo, three volumes. In Very Good condition. Green and yellow spines with green lettering. Covers and textblocks have mild shelving wear. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Multi-Volume Area (ND-MV). 1402906. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Dust Cover. VOLUME ONE Only, Good Hardcover, Green Cloth "Popular edition", fraying to top of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First US Edition. Boards with light rubbing to extremities and with light fraying to spine ends. Former owner's name on first blank page.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; viii, 558, [1], iv, 562, [1] pages.

A handsomely bound set of The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, edited by his son Francis and with a chapter on 'The Reception of the Origin of Species' by Thomas Henry Huxley. This early printing was published in the same year as the first with revisions and the errata corrected. Fifth thousand, revised; 3 vols, 8vo (220 x 150 mm); engraved frontispiece to each volume, single plate to vols I & II, errata slip in vol. I, engravings in the text, bookplates to pastedowns, occasional light spotting to first and last few leaves; contemporary half red morocco by Birdsall & Son, gilt ruled marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt in six gilt compartments, top edges gilt, a touch of rubbing, a very good set; 395; 393; 418 pp. Freeman 1453. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good binding. An attractive First Edition of this fore-runner of one of the most important books of the 19th century.~~Two essays written in 1842 and 1844, in which Darwin's theory of natural selection is first considered; the 1842 essay was published earlier that year, but this is the first appearance in print of the 1844 essay, and thus the first appearance of the two essays together. Of note is that "[t]he sketch of 1844 bears, on the whole a striking resemblance to the origin of species . even some of the sentences are identical." [DNB, Vol. V (1917), p. 526] Darwin himself provides evidence of the high estimate he had formed of the sketch: "A letter exists, addressed to his wife, in which he made provision, in case of his death, for the publication of the manuscript . stating that he believes his conclusions to be 'a considerable step in science'" [ibid.]~~Large Octavo; in the publisher's green buckram binding with spine lettered in gilt and beveled edges; xxix, [1]. 263 pages including the Index; top edge gilt with other edges rough-cut; there is a small and neatly penned name on the front endpaper; with photogravure portrait frontispiece, protected with a tissue guard and a facsimile; the spine is just a bit darkened; a previous owner's signature on the front pastedown. ~~~ (DNB , Vol V, (1917), p. 527). Very Good binding. …