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Huxley, Julian.
Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.
Publisher: George Allen & Unwin LTD., London;
Date of Publication: 1942
Stock Code: 14505
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp., 645. Publisher’s bright green cloth with gilt title to spine in an unclipped lemon yellow light card dust-jacket. Top edge green. Previous owner’s name inscribed in pen to front free end-paper. Dust-jacket tanned to spine and edges, spine tip a little creased with one patch of loss and a small closed tear. A near fine book in a very good dust-jacket. Brother of novelist Aldous Huxley, Julian Huxley was a prolific author on evolutionary science. As Secretary of the Zoological Society of London, he was noted for his public presentations of ideas on radio, television and in the press. As well as his work on evolutionary biology, he had a keen interest in parapsychology. £100.00