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First edition. Publishers red cloth with gilt title to spine. Pages of hand-written notes loose on inside. Untrimmed page-blocks. "Contains important studies on such subjects as 'Progress, biological and human,' 'Some bearings of Biology on Sociology,' 'Sex Biology and Sex Psychology,' 'Philosophic Ants: a biological fantasy,' 'The present relations between Science and Religion.' The essays are serious in treatment, but written in a style which will commend them to the general reader no less than to the specialist." A very lovely copy.

Publisher: Chatto & Windus., London

Author: Julian Huxley

Date Published: 1923

Binding: Hardback

Condition: Very Good

Reference: #38

Weight: 440g

Reserve: $10.00

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