The Flamingo’s Smile: Reflections in Natural History.

GOULD, Stephen Jay.

Item Number: 3913

New York: W.W. Norton, 1985.

First edition of this work by the award-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Stephen Jay Gould on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Mike McIver.

Gould himself is a rare and wonderful animal-a member of the endangered species known as the ruby-throated polymath. . . . [He] is a leading theorist on large-scale patterns in evolution . . . [and] one of the sharpest and most humane thinkers in the sciences" (David Quammen).