The Book Shed

offsetting to front and rear free eps, a whimsical bookplate of the librarian and bookman Joseph L. Wheeler, designed by the British artist C. Walter Hodges and signature to front ep. A defense of the theory of evolution, written in reaction to the opposition revived in the years before the Scopes "monkey trial." Robinson enlarges on a address he gave before the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Salt Lake City in 1922, published in Science, vol lvi, Julyy, 1922. The American Historical Association Council began awarding a biennial James Harvey Robinson Prize in 1978 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover.