The Theory of Island Biogeography.

WILSON, Edward O. & Robert H. Mac Arthur.

Item Number: 4388

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967.

First edition. Octavo, original green cloth. Signed by Edward O. Wilson who has added a drawing of an ant on the title page. Small library stamp to the title page and verso and removed bookplate to the front endpaper, a very good copy in a excellent dust jacket that shows some light wear to the dust jacket and a small stain to the spine.

"MacArthur and Wilson's is arguably the most influential book in biogeography in the last hundred years. With its emphasis on on-going processes of colonization and extinction, it provided a new framework to explain patterns in species diversity and served as a counterpoint to hypotheses relying on chance and solitary historical events. Many of the antecedents for what we now call conservation biology, invasion biology, and landscape ecology had their origins here" (Ted Case, University of California, San Diego).