Free Press, New York, 2009, 1^st/1^st.  ISBN 978-1-4165-9478-9.  Hard cover, 470 pages including Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Picture Acknowledgements, and Index.  Near fine in a very good plus dust jacket, price intact.  Illustrated with black & white line drawings and colour photo plate sections.  ‘… a stunning counter-attack on advocates of “Intelligent Design,” explaining the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdities of the creationist “argument.”  Dawkins sifts through rich layers of scientific evidence:  from living examples of natural selection to clues in the fossil record; from natural clocks that mark the vast epochs wherein evolution ran its course to the intricacies of developing embryos; from plate tectonics to molecular genetics.  Combining these elements with many more, he makes the airtight case that “we find ourselves perched on one tiny twig in the midst of a blossoming and flourishing tree of life and it is no accident, but the direct consequence of evolution by non-random selection.” (from front flap)