DAWKINS, Richard
The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie
London: Head of Zeus Ltd., 2024
8vo., bright yellow boards, lettered in navy blue to spine with publisher’s device to foot; yellow endpapers; together in the unclipped printed dustwrapper (£25 to front flap); pp. [viii], 351, [i]; fine, unread, in fine wrapper.
First UK edition, third printing. This copy signed by both the author and his wife, (and illustrator of the book), Jana Lenzová, to the half title. A ticket to the signing is also loosely laid in.
Dawkins’ most recent evolutionary work, which is filled with “fascinating examples of the power of Darwinian natural selection to build exquisite perfection, paradoxically accompanied by what looks like gross blunders” (dust wrapper). Fabled to be his final work, this copy was signed during the Hay Festival, one of the last signings he vowed to undertake as part of his ‘final bow’.
DAWKINS, Richard
The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie
London: Head of Zeus Ltd., 2024
8vo., bright yellow boards, lettered in navy blue to spine with publisher’s device to foot; yellow endpapers; together in the unclipped printed dustwrapper (£25 to front flap); pp. [viii], 351, [i]; fine, unread, in fine wrapper.
First UK edition, third printing. This copy signed by both the author and his wife, (and illustrator of the book), Jana Lenzová, to the half title. A ticket to the signing is also loosely laid in.
Dawkins’ most recent evolutionary work, which is filled with “fascinating examples of the power of Darwinian natural selection to build exquisite perfection, paradoxically accompanied by what looks like gross blunders” (dust wrapper). Fabled to be his final work, this copy was signed during the Hay Festival, one of the last signings he vowed to undertake as part of his ‘final bow’.
