DARWIN, EVOLUTION, RELIGION: FIVE TITLES

Description: DARWIN, EVOLUTION, RELIGION: FIVE TITLES Gould, F.J. The Agnostic Island. London: Watts and Co., no date (early 1890s). 7" x 5", 124,(20)pp.; publisher's cloth-backed, illustrated, drab paper boards (covers darkened and discolored, front inner hinge started, a 3" tear to, and a 1" x 1/2" piece piece missing from, the first (blank) leaf, a 1/2"-square piece missing from the fore-edge of one leaf, contents shaken). The publisher's (18)pp. catalog at the volume's rear is devoted to agnostic and free-thought publications, including The Agnostic Island. The advertisement for "The Agnostic Annual" notes volumes from 1885 to 1891. Fiske, John. Darwinism and Other Essays. London: Macmillan, 1879. 7 3/8" x 4 3/4", viii,283,(1),30,(2)pp.; publisher's cloth (covers splash-marked; binding broken through the middle, the contents separated into halves). Wallace, Alfred Russel. Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection, With Some of its Applications. London: Macmillan, 1889. 7 1/2" x 5", (ii),xvi,494,(2)pp. + folding map, portrait frontispiece, 37 black/white figures within the text, the Preface dated March 1889; publisher's green cloth, spine gilt (lowermost 2" of spine waterstained, barely discernible at the lower front outer hinge, the stain continuing (just, at the gutter) to the pastedown endpaper and the first leaf; 2 3/4" x (max.) 2" pale waterstain to the lower inner corner of the rear cover, the stain continuing (at the gutter, reduced in size) to the rear pastedown endpaper and the final three leaves; half-title sprung). Peckham, Morse. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: A Variorum Text. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1959. 9"x 6", 816pp.; cloth (3 1/2" x (max.) 2 1/2" waterstain at the lower, inner corner of either cover; lowermost 2" of spine faintly waterstained; lacking 32 pages (one gathering) near the volume's center, another gathering printed twice), dust jacket (missing a 1" x 1/2" piece near the base of the spine, small pieces missing elsewhere, short tears, the spine waterstained). Kropotkin, P. Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. London: William Heinemann, 1903. Second printing. 8 7/8" x 5 3/4", xx,348pp.; publisher's cloth (slight wear to the outer hinges, the upper corners just bumped, a little foxing to the untrimmed edges; slight marginal foxing to contents, owner's name on the first (blank) recto and the half-title, bookplate on the first (blank) verso).

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