THE SELFISH GENE

First Folio Society edition, first printing. First edition with these illustrations. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine and illustration in gilt and bronze by Neil Gower to the upper board, in slipcase. Printed on Abbey Wove Paper. Illustrated with 51 colour photographs throughout. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine structurally sound slipcase.

Richard Dawkins' debut book 'The Selfish Gene' was first published in 1976 by Oxford University Press and became an influential scientific work on the 'genes eye view' of evolution. This first illustrated edition follows the text of the 2006 thirtieth anniversary edition.