Paleontology from Downtown Brown Books, ABAA

Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. An illustrated introduction to bird evolution. This is the first edition; it was reissued in 2015 in revised form. 312 pages. 8-1/2 by 10-3/4 inches. First edition (with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. This… Read more about this item

New York: Columbia University Press, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. The paleontologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History explains evolutionary theory for a non-scientific audience. 199 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with a couple of tears to the top edge. … Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A synthesis of three decades of study and writing about evolutionary theory. Gould, ever the historian of science, traces the development of evolution in order to make his case that biologists put too much emphasis on the "design" embodied in natural… Read more about this item

New York: Plenum Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 18 papers. 424 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover (no jacket, probably as issued). Stamped "review copy" at the front.

Tokyo: University Museum, University of Tokyo, 1977. First Edition. Trade paperback. Near fine. 155 pages. 11 pages of plates. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). This copy is inscribed by one of the authors (not sure which one) to the paleontologist and evolutionary theorist Stephen Jay Gould: "Professor Stephen J. Gould with the… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Freeman Cooper & Company, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 250 pages. The first publication of Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould's paper "Punctuated Equilibria: An Alternative to Phyletic Gradualism." This was one of Gould's major contributions to evolutionary theory and it remains a controversial one to this day. Gould and Eldredge propose that evolution is… Read more about this item

Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1925. First Edition. Trade paperback. Very good. Pp. 89-197, plus 12 plates. First edition. Good to very good in wrappers (chipping to spine). Inscribed to a scientist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, in Pittsburgh, "Dr. P. E. Raymond, with the author's compliments.