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  First Edition of The Beak of the Finch; Inscribed by Jonathan Weiner to Naturalist Edward O. Wilson and Signed by Jacket Illustrator Chip Kidd

  WEINER, Jonathan [Edward Wilson; Chip Kidd].

  The Beak of the Finch: The Story of Evolution in Our Time.

  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

  First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to naturalist Edward O. Wilson, "For Edward, with best wishes, Jonathan Weiner May, 2016." Additionally signed by jacket designer Chip Kidd on the rear jacket flap. The recipient, Edward Osborne Wilson, was an American biologist, naturalist, and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author widely regarded as one of the greatest natural scientists of the twentieth century, whose career at Harvard University across nearly five decades produced foundational contributions to entomology, evolutionary biology, island biogeography, and the theory of sociobiology that permanently transformed our understanding of the biological basis of social behavior in animals and humans alike. His seminal works include Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975), On Human Nature (1978), for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1979, The Ants (1990, co-authored with Bert Hölldobler), which also won a Pulitzer Prize, and Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998), in which he argued with characteristic audacity that all branches of human knowledge, from the natural sciences to the humanities, are fundamentally unified by a small num...

  Price: $2,500.00     Item Number: 152288

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  "Darwin's Finches will keep their covenant with Darwin's islands, witnessed by a heap of stones": First Edition of The Beak of the Finch; Lengthily Inscribed by The Author and Jacket Illustrator Chip Kidd

  WEINER, Jonathan.

  The Beak of the Finch: The Story of Evolution in Our Time.

  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.

  First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Lengthily inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For John Rogers, With Best Wishes Jonathan Weiner 'Darwin's Finches will keep their covenant with Darwin's islands, witnessed by a heap of stones.' May 2016." Also, includes a signed letter on the author's letterhead to the same recipient. Fine in a near fine dust jacket that shows light shelfwear. Jacket design by Chip Kidd and signed by him on the rear flap. Drawings by K. Thalia Grant. A unique example.

  Price: $750.00     Item Number: 112993

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