Darwin Major Leonard (6 results)

Red Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. viii, 337 pages, clean ex-library copy, one inch tear at top of spine. Leonard Darwin FRGS (1850 - 1943) was an English politician, economist and eugenicist. He was a son of the naturalist Charles Darwin.

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket 1st US edition. Front hinge cracked. Slightly dampstained. (economy, politics, money).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. The Thinker's Library, No. 12. Smaller sized hardcover in very good condition. Unclipped dust jacket in acceptable condition. Jacket is marked, scuffed and sunned. Edges and spine are creased and torn, including chips and tape repairs within. Board edges, corners and spine ends are bumped. Slight lean to the spine. Page block is lightly tanned and blemished. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Good + for Age. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Red cloth with black lettering to fr. & sp., clean but joints and sp. rubbed and bottom outer corners bumped. half-title with series list to verso + viii + 88; small gilt name & address label top fr. pastedown, end-papers tanned, outer sides heavily, no other obvious faults though almost invisible sm. closed nick to Preface leaf. 1st pub. 1928, not clear if this 2nd ed. is changed in any way.Issued as No.9 in The Forum Series. Now scarce and sought after. Covers usual topics dear to Eugenicists hearts: sterilization, the 'feeble minded', 'inferior stock', birth control etc. 13 cm x 19 cm.

pp. 20. New cloth, extracted from the Review.

First edition. 8vo. viii, 341, [1] pp. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, blue coated endpapers (contemporary ownership inscription to front flyleaf, otherwise a near fine copy). London, John Murray. An interesting work on bimetallism by Leonard Darwin (1850-1943), son of Charles Darwin, of which John Maynard Keynes would later write: "'His book appeared towards the end of the long controversy [on the use of both gold and silver as the basis for currencies]. But his statement of the conflicting arguments was so clear and unbiassed that it remained the standard text-book ? until questions on bimetallism had disappeared from the examination papers on economic theory.' Economic Journal, Dec 1943" (quoted in ODNB).