Rare copy of The Science of Life by H.G. Wells and Julian Huxley

This is a rare, hard to find, copy of the 1936 "The Science of Life by H. G. Wells and Julian Huxley. Some wear on the dust jacket. Inscription on the first page. Red cloth cover with gold lettering. No highlighting or underlining. A couple of wrinkled pages. Some bug damaged pages. Overall book and spine in good condition. A classic and collectible volume from the past. Please convo me if want further information on this vintage book.

The Science of Life is a book written by H. G. Wells, Julian Huxley and G. P. Wells, published in three volumes by The Waverley Publishing Company Ltd[2] in 1929–30, giving a popular account of all major aspects of biology as known in the 1920s. It has been called "the first modern textbook of biology" and "the best popular introduction to the biological sciences". Wells's most recent biographer notes that The Science of Life "is not quite as dated as one might suppose."

Julian Huxley, the grandson of T. H. Huxley under whom Wells had studied biology, and his son "Gip," a zoologist, divided the initial writing between them; H.G. Wells revised, dealt (with the help of his literary agent, A.P. Watt) with publishers, and acted as a strict taskmaster, often obliging his collaborators to sit down and work together and keeping them on a tight schedule. (H.G. Wells had begun the book during his wife's final illness and is said to have used work on the book as a way to keep his mind off his loss.)

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