Undated · Personally signed leather-bound first edition
Bully for Brontosaurus
Reflections in Natural History
Stephen Jay Gould
A personally signed, leather-bound Easton Press first edition of Stephen Jay Gould’s celebrated collection of essays on evolution, palaeontology and the history of life.
A personally signed, leather-bound Easton Press first edition of Stephen Jay Gould’s celebrated collection of essays on evolution, palaeontology and the history of life.
Gould was one of the twentieth century’s most eminent evolutionary thinkers and its most gifted public interpreter of natural history. In Bully for Brontosaurus, he combines scientific authority, historical imagination and uncommon literary grace to illuminate evolution, extinction, contingency and humanity’s place within the history of life.
In extremely fine condition, this handsome signed first edition is a highly desirable cultural object for evolutionary biologists, palaeontologists, physicians, eminent life-science researchers and collectors of major scientific thinkers. The author’s original signature and distinguished Easton Press presentation make the copy especially collectible, while the price remains notably attractive.
- Publication
- Norwalk · The Easton Press
- Language
- English
- Format
- Full-leather Easton Press first edition · Personally signed by Stephen Jay Gould
- Completeness
- Complete as issued, including the signed limitation leaf.
- Condition
- Extremely fine. The leather binding, gilt decoration, text block and interior leaves are exceptionally fresh and well preserved, with no material defects apparent from the supplied photographs.
- Provenance
- Personally signed by Stephen Jay Gould on the publisher’s signed-edition page.
- Rarity
- A personally signed leather-bound first edition by one of the twentieth century’s most eminent evolutionary thinkers. Highly desirable for collectors of evolutionary biology, palaeontology, natural history and the wider life sciences.
- Status
- Available
- Price
- USD 650