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xv, 264 pp; 12 figs. Original cloth. Top & bottom of spine sunned where pieces have been missing from the dust jacket. Good, in badly worn dust jacket. If you need a fine dust jacket, this copy is NOT for you. BUT the dust jacket has not been price-clipped!! First Edition (so stated on verso of title page). SIGNED BY HOMER SMITH: "For/ Clyde Manwell/ with my warmest regards/ Homer W. Smith/ May 2, 1955." Smith's "early scientific investigations of the comparative physiology of the body fluids led through his study of paleontology to his erudite essays on the evolution of the kidney, contained in his Porter Lectures and expanded into his book From Fish to Philosopher" (Chasis & Goldring, Homer William Smith, p. 4). Seller Inventory # 16023
Title: From Fish to Philosopher. FIRST EDITION. ...
Publisher: Boston: Little, Brown, 1953.
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition