The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth.

LOVELOCK, James.

Item Number: 146624

New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1988.

First edition of this harmonic synthesis of Greek Gaia Theory and scientific thought. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs, diagrams, and graphs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “With warm best wishes To Duck & Lucy Manoft from Jim Lovelock October 1988.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kevin O’Neill.

"This book by James Lovelock describes a set of observations about the life of our planet which may, one day, be recognized as one of the major discontinuities in human thought. If Lovelock turns out to be as right in his view of this as I believe he is, we will be viewing the Earth as a coherent system of life, self-regulating and self-changing, a sort of immense living organism" (Lewis Thomas, from the Foreword to 'The Ages of Gaia').