Fabre's Book of Insects Retold from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' Translation of Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques
by Fabre, J. Henri [Mrs. Rudolph Stawell]
Later Printing
Price: $65.00
- Bookseller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers
- Seller Inventory #: 1006
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: Later Printing
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Tudor Publishing
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1939
Book Description
New York: Tudor Publishing, 1939. Later Printing. Hardcover. Light shelf/edge wear, touch of foxing at text block edges, boards show some flecking related to dye absorbsion, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows even age toning, spine width chip at head, closed tear at base of spine (with related, historical, tape repair), several small, closed tears, some light foxing, front bright. Green coated cloth boards, gilt lettering, labels and decorative elements, top of text block dyed green. Small 4to. xii, 271pp. Illus. (color plates). All plates and printed tissue guards in pristine condition. Stunning color tipped-in illustrations by E. J. Detmold. A very nice copy of a wonderful, if somewhat offbeat, volume.
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