The Science of Life by H G Wells, First Edition (23 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Doubleday, Doran, 1931. 1st Fair, Hardcover, Volume Three, Books 5-8. Pages numbered 773-1146. Black cloth with orange decorations and title. Color frontis of Neanderthal man. Patchy fading to cover. Bump to cover corners. Inside hinges taped - tape has yellowed. Former owner's name on endpaper. No dust jacket. B&w illustrations. Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care. Book.

Hard Cover. First Edition, First printing. Stated First Edition. VERY GOOD. LIGHT SPOTTING TO BOARDS, GILT SPINE LETTERING BRIGHT, SLIGHT BUMPEED CORNERS, TIGHT BINDING, CLEAN INTERIOR. NO DUST JACKET. OWNER NAME.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition as a single volume. With dust jacket. Black cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. Black top edge to text block. Numerous b&w illustrations. Dust jacket soiled and rubbed; several tears along the edges. Boards mildly rubbed along edges; corners slightly bumped. Pencil price mark on front free endpaper; endpapers discoloured; otherwise pages clean. Binding firm. Because of the size and weight of this book, additional postage charges will apply. n.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. L.R. Brightwell and others (illustrator). 1st Edition. Firmly bound, red cloth boards. Fading and marks on cover and spine. Marks on the end papers. Creases on top corners of the last few pages. No jacket.

Condition: Good. First edition of this ground breaking book. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Edges are bumped. Pages are age tanned but clean. Front hinge is split, otherwise binding is tight. Numerous black and white photopraghps and drawings. 896pp. 4to. Please enquire about postage as this book is heavy.

Unknown Binding. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. First Edition. Good in Fair dust jacket. Dust jacket is rubbed and worn with chips and tears along edges, corners, and spine, some loss to bottom of front panel. Foxing to text block edges and front and rear end pages, but no markings in text. Front and rear hinges appear to have started to crack and were repaired by previous owner with black binding tape. A nice copy. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Undated [c1930]. Assumed 1st edition. Volume 3 only. Blue cloth, gilt titles, red speckled edges. Colour plates; in-text b/w illustrations and diagrams. Index. Condition: Very good. Light edgewear. Gilt bright. Foxing to endpapers. Pages generally clean and bright. Size: 11x9in / 28x23cm. pp641-992. Weight: 1.8kg. Heavy volume, may require extra shipping for overseas.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Undated [c1930]. Assumed 1st edition. Volume 2 only. Blue cloth, gilt titles, red speckled edges. Colour plates; in-text b/w illustrations and diagrams. Condition: Very good. Light edgewear. Gilt bright. Foxing to endpapers. Pages generally clean and bright. Size: 11x9in / 28x23cm. pp321-640. Weight: 1.6kg. Heavy volume, may require extra shipping for overseas.

1514 pp. 2 vols. Royal 8vo. First American edition. First American edition. 1514 pp. 2 vols. Royal 8vo. Blue cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Spines faded, else Fine.

3 volumes of c.320pp. each. 4to. Original cloth, slight wear to extremities. Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w. A very good bright set. Heavy book. Please contact seller direct for accurate overseas shipping charge. . First edition.

Hard. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pages clean and bright, light foxing on endpapers, boards and binding tidy. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Blue cloth cover is worn at extremities, scuffed, and toned but in good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Split to paste down near gutter reglued. Former owner's name and date of "Xmas 1930" on front end sheet. A few pencil underlines on first few pages otherwise pages are clean and very good. ; 773 pages.

hardcover. Illustrated (illustrator). 1st. 8vo, 1514 pp., Tiny bit of soiling to jackets, else fine. First American editions. Fine copies in nearly fine dust jackets.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. BRoghtwell, L R (illustrator). 1st Edition. Volume Two, of three, only. [1929]. viii, pp321-640, with 31 plates in full colour by L R Brightwell, 272 drawings in black and white by the same artist and 712 photographic plates and other illustrations. In red cloth-covered boards, decorated with blind rules, gilt titles on spine. Tall 4to. . Boards slightly rubbed and rounded at corners and spine tips, spine a little faded. Some faint and occasional spotting on endpapers, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. H G Well's classic work on biology, written with his zoologist son and his former biology tutor has been described as 'the best popular introduction to the biological sciences'. It is notable for its introduction of modern ecological concepts. Originally serialised in 31 fortnightly parts, the first book edition of three volumes was published between 1929 and 1930; a single volume edition was issued in 1931.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. fully illustrated in tone and line, with many diagrams. the jacket has suffered some wear and tears. foxing and markings. binding is sure and intact. very heavy, may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A few marks here and there from mild shelf/reader wear, though overall in very nice shape for the age. Black covers, binding tight, no interior marks. Additional shipping may be required due to the weight.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. First Edition. First edition. (1931.) Publisher's/Salesman Hardcover Dummy Edition without dust jacket as issued. 8vo with 114 pages. All title pages and front endpapers are bound in. Facsimile of the signed limited page is shown. The spine of the forthcoming book is laid in the rear, The book is in good condition with some shelf wear to bottom of binding and corners. Interior is clean and tight. All four frontispieces are reporoduced in this salesman's copy. Facsimile of Binding for the signed limited edition is bound to rear paste down. These specimen books were used by the agents of subscription publishers to entice customers to purchase a copy of a work in advance of delivery especially used for sets of books as "The Science of Life" was. Blue spine/no text. #032269 Size: 8vo. Publisher's Dummy Edition.

First American edition, inscribed on the half title. x, 773, ix, [2], [774]1514pp. 2 vols. 8vo. The Doubleday two-volume set of Wells' scientific collaboration with his son, the zoologist George Philip (G. P.) Wells, and Julian Huxley, an evolutionary biologist and brother of author Aldous Huxley. (Wells had also studied biology under Huxley's father.) Originally published as 31 semi-monthly installments, it was first collected into book form in 1931 as both a single volume edition by Cassell and in these two volumes by Doubleday. H. G. Wells was inspired to create the series by the success of his humanities version, The Outline of History, ten years prior. This work conducted an equally thorough overview of the known biological science of the time, and is particularly notable not only for credentials of the authors, but also its robust defense of Darwin's evolutionary theory ("Book Three: The Incontrovertible Fact of Evolution"). While on this project Wells served mainly in an editorial capacity, leaving the main writing to his son and Huxley, each actual experts in the field, the authorship credit was nonetheless granted to all three, with H. G.'s name the most prominent on the title page. The first volume is doubly inscribed: initially on the half-title page by H. G. Wells to his son with fellow author Rebecca West, Anthony Panther West ("A. P. W. / with love / fr. H. G. W."), and then on the first free endpaper to Anthony's son, "For Edmund / with fondest love / Xmas 1995," most likely by his mother, the painter Katherine "Kitty" Duff Church West. Anthony Panther West Fairfield (19141987), a critically acclaimed author in his own right, was born one year after his famous parents commenced their long affair. His unusual middle name references Wells' pet name for Rebecca (his own was "Jaguar"), and "Fairfield" was his mother's original family name (her adopted pseudonym "Rebecca West" was from an Ibsen play). Writing under the name Anthony West, he composed many pieces for the New Yorker over the course of twenty years, and wrote a biography of Wells (H. G. Wells: Aspects of a Life), but is perhaps best known for his 1955 roman à clef novel, Heritage, in which he excoriated the mother figure, a very thinly disguised West, while being much more sympathetic to the father. West was so upset by the portrayal that she broke off relations with Anthony, and managed to prevent the book's publication in Great Britain during her lifetime. Though Wells never married West, he clearly maintained a positive presence in his son's life, as evidenced both by this warm inscription and Anthony's later profile of him, which a critic stated was "a book whose main purpose seems to be to even the score with anyone who has ever denigrated Mr. West's father" Blue cloth, decoratively blind stamped on front board, in gilt on spine. Spine sunned, corners bumped, with moderate shelf wear. Printed endpapers, illustrated throughout with black-and-white line drawings x, 773, ix, [2], [774]1514pp. 2 vols. 8vo First American edition, inscribed on the half title.

First edition. First edition. In 30 fortnightly parts. Large 4to. Pictorial wrappers. In half blue morocco slipcase and chemise In 30 fortnightly parts. Large 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. pp. 896. Hand written inscription signed by H G Wells, dated Cannes, Feb. 16, 1931, " To Lady Wavertree, devotion, H.G.Wells". Original cloth, dustwrapper torn but intact. Many illustrations and diagrams. Iconic work from the thirties on all things biological from two of the greatest popularisers of science in the 20th century, along with Well's' son and zoologist, George Wells.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Bound in publisher's original dark-blue cloth with blue stripe on either side of spine and gilded top edges. H. G. Wells' signature is stamped in gilt on the cover of each volume. One of 750 numbered sets. Volume One is signed in ink by each of the three authors. The frontispiece of each volume contains a colorful illustration in a theme related to the subject matter of the work. Many detailed black-and-white illustrations of biota throughout, including photographs. Hardcover.

First edition. cloth, no DW, tops of spines show wear, slight shelfwear, anticipate extrra shipping, VG.

First Edition. Four volumes, no jackets, quite good with slight shelf wear, toning, mottling and foxing to cloth spines, , slight foxing in text, especially preliminaries, binding square and strong. Number 304 of only 750 sets of the Signed Limited Edition, Signed by H.G. Wells, Julian Huxley and C.P. Wells. Signed by Author(s).