Publicado por Dodd, Mead & Company, 1913
Librería: Squeaky Trees Books, Greenfield TWP, ME, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Green linen covered hardboards have light edgewear but tips are worn to board and lower and upper spine have fraying, gilt on spine almost completely diminished, gilt on cover good, one tissue over a tipped in plate is loose, very slight toning to text pages ; 20 tipped in plates in wonderful condition under tissue, solid binding, no markings -- very large, heavy book cannot be sent priority flat mail and international orders will incur additional postal charges; 213 pages.
Publicado por E-146
Librería: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Dodd, Mead and Company, New York. 1912. 265 pgs. Illustrated edition with 13 tipped-in colour plates. First, thus. Bound in decorated cloth boards with gilt titles present. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In "The Life of the Bee," Nobel Prize winner Maurice Maeterlinck offers brilliant proof that "no living creature, not even man, has achieved in the center of his sphere, what the bee has achieved." From their amazingly intricate feats of architecture to their intrinsic sense of self-sacrifice, Maeterlinck takes a "bee's-eye view" of the most orderly society on Earth. A classic bee book written in a lively and readable style, "The Life of the Bee" is reasonably accurate (for a book of its vintage). In the words of Maurice Maeterlinck, "It is not my intention to write a treatise on apiculture, or on practical bee-keeping.I wish to speak of the bees very simply, as one speaks of a subject one knows and loves to those who know it not." It's safe to say that, in "The Life of the Bee," Maurice Maeterlinck succeeded in his goal very well. Maeterlinck, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911, played an important part in the Symbolist movement. A Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist, Maeterlinck wrote primarily about death and the meaning of life. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Publicado por Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 40 Museum Street, London First Edition . 1920., 1920
Librería: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
Original o primera edición
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original French blue cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover with colour illustrated paper onlay. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 191 printed pages of text with 5 colour illustrated plates. Spine ends a little softened, ghosting to the free end papers, foxing to the edges. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition rare illustrated dust wrapper with tiny chips to the spine tips and corners. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. BEEKEEPING & APIARISTS.