150th Anniversary Publication Darwin's 'Origin' First Edition

November 24th 2009 marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of the first edition of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life - a revolutionary work, hastily completed in response to Alfred Russel Wallace's co-discovery of the principle of 'suvival of the fittest'.

If anyone has a copy of the first edition and would care to share, this blogger would tenderly care for it.