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New York : Heritage Press, 1963, 1963. Very Good. xxx, 470 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. ; LCCN: 63-5353 ; LC: QH365; Dewey: 575.0162; OCLC: 1563903 ; with a new preface by Charles G. Darwin ; iIllustrated with wood engravings by Paul Landacre. ; Paul Hambleton Landacre was one of the outstanding printmakers of the modern era. His distinguished body of work was largely responsible for elevating the wood engraving to an art form in twentieth-century America. Landacre's linocuts and wood engravings of landscapes, still lifes, nudes, and abstractions are celebrated for their technical virtuosity and mastery of design....In March 1932, the artist and his wife moved to a rustic house in the Echo Park neighborhood, also known as Edendale, near downtown Los Angeles, where they lived for the remainder of their lives. Landacre died in 1963 soon after—and emotionally resulting from—the death of his wife who had been an essential working companion for 38 years, even helping the artist late in his life pull…
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On the origin of species by means of natural selection; or, The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.
by Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. [illustrations, Paul Hambleton Landacre, 1893-1963]
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: ; or Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
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[Toronto]: Parasitic Ventures Press, 2005. Volume LI, Syntactic Analyses. Card Covers. pp. 382. Small 8vo., measuring 5" x 7.5". Plain card covers, black endpapers. Light rubbing, short crease to the front cover, contents without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; very good. Exceptionally scarce in commerce. Unrecorded in OCLC. Volume 51 in a series published by Prasitic Ventures Press. "Conceived in the waning years of the last century, produced as a one-off for an exhibition in 2004, and now republished as a new open-edition set, Syntactic Analyses is modelled on great-books series such as the Everymans Library. One hundred volumes of must read books, primarily covering political thought, philosophy, and history."
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (Third edition)
by DARWIN, Charles (1809 - 1882)
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London : printed by W. Clowes and Sons for John Murray, 1861. Third edition. Octavo, original green cloth, boards blocked in blind, spine gilt (corners slightly bumped, light bumping to head and foot of spine, small damp mark to upper panel, small 10 mm mark recoloured to spine), binding variant B (no preference), without full point (period) after “MURRAY” in spine imprint, tan endpapers, bookseller's ticket of T. M. Buzzard to front pastedown, previous owner's name to front free endpaper, blindstamp of 105 Port Road Hindmarsh, previous owner's name to half-title, dated 1864, pp. xix; [blank], 548; (2 - publisher's catalogue), folding lithographic plate by William West after Darwin, internally clean, a fine and crisp copy of the third edition. The first edition of 1859, a great rarity, is described in Freeman as ""... the most important biological work ever written.""; Dibner, ""... the most important single work in science.""; Printing & the Mind of Man, ""... revolutionized our methods of…
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