Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History.

GOULD, Stephen Jay.

Item Number: 3995

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1989.

First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the title page. Near fine in a fine dust jacket.

"[An] extraordinary book. . . . Mr. Gould is an exceptional combination of scientist and science writer. . . . He is thus exceptionally well placed to tell these stories, and he tells them with fervor and intelligence" (James Gleick, New York Times Book Review).