The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

New York: Random House, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($8.95), rubbed and bumped at the edges with some small chips and closed tears. Green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Bound with some reading wear and a forward lean, ownership signature on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. "In a breathtaking overview from prehistory to the present [Sagan] explains how human beings evolved, genes and brains together; who our ancestors and their competitors were; how our brains and the brains of other animals work; and why other intelligent beings will be sufficiently like us intellectually to permit interstellar communication.