Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language by John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry. First Edition unstated, 1999 Oxford University Press. First Printing with no subsequent printing.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title gilt on a straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and rubbed corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with the signature of Eörs Szathmáry on the half title page with a brief inscription. No other marks, inscriptions or signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear, and the price on the front flap. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
The Origins of Life represents the thinking of two leading scientists on questions that engage us all–how life began and how it gradually evolved from tiny invisible cells into whales and trees and human beings.
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
