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We purge, you save: Autographed US first hardback edition of Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea

Grab your autographed copies of Evolution, a vibrant history of evolutionary biology, while stocks last. Don't miss out!

Written byCarl Zimmer
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In the continuing quest to avoid packing boxes before our house gets ripped open for renovations this summer, allow me to offer you--for one week only!--another sale. I've got 33 autographed copies of the first US hardback edition of Evolution: The Triumph of An Idea, which are available for $20. (The cover price is $40, and this particular edition has been out of print for some time now.) This book was a companion to a series that aired in 2001 on PBS. But it's not a nonfiction novelization of the show. In fact, the show hadn't even been shot when I started working on the book a year earlier. Instead, I wrote a stand-alone introduction to the history of evolutionary biology and to its many avenues, from sex to mass extinctions to the rise of our species. The publishers packed the large-format book with photographs and color artwork. "Zimmer writes in a gloriously clear and lively style," wrote a reviewer for Scientific American. "His coverage is as thorough as it is graceful. This is as fine a book as one will find on the subject." If this sale is like the previous ones, the books are going to move fast, so I apologize in advance to any disappointed shoppers. But remember: you can still find other autographed books in my Amazon store. Update, 6 pm: All gone! Thanks again. I'll start another sale on Monday. (I got some cries of woe from people abroad who can't get Amazon to ship to them. So I may start the sale with a non-US pre-sale...)

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