Christopher Ralling Selector Arranger Introduction (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Mayflower Books, New York. 1979. Hardcover. Stated First American Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light sunfading to board top and bottom edges. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($9.99); light rubbing and edge bumping. Blue cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split. 185 pp 8vo. This book presents for the first time a selection of Darwin's autobiographical writings in a single volume illustrating the events and scenes of that momentous journey. The sources are his Diary the later Journal which is based on it, and the short Autobiography which his wife persuaded him to write for their children towards the end of his life. Throughout the voyage he pursued many lines of inquiry but, as this selection shows, it is possible to follow the growth and progress of the thought which was to lead to the theory of natural selection, against the framework of an absorbing adventure story. A clean very presentable copy.