Search Results: the hunting wasps by fabre j henri

Hodder and Stoughton, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 427 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green pictorial boards with black lettering. Ex-Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are lightly tanned with a few small nicks and water drops along text block edge. Moderate dog-eared corners. Mild cracking to hinges and gutters, with exposed netting. Occasional thumb-marking present throughout. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with mild bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine, with visible crushing to spine ends. Slight fraying to joint, with water drops on rear board. Label across spine.

Hodder And Stoughton, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 427 pages. Green dust jacket over green cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers. Light thumb-marking present. Slight cracking to gutters of a few pages. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Book is slightly bowed and forward leaning. Tape staining to front board with slight discolouration to cloth. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Tape to insides, with staining to panels. Heavy tanning to spine and edges. Foxing to all surfaces.

Dodd, Mead and Company. Used - Very Good. 1924. Decorative, orange cloth w/ gilt lettering, Octavo, 427 pp. Some wear to cloth and fading to lettering. Previous owner's bookplate to fpep. Overall, very good. (Subject: Natural History.)

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1916* Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton.* Binding and cover condition: Green cloth, faded gilt title to spine and to face with gilt insect design as frame. No bumps, minor rubbing to corners, edges and hinges. GD* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Xmas dedication (1916) to front paste-down. Clean, crisp, and tight with only minor reading wear. Severe tanning to margins and all edges. Slight foxing to leading and last few pages. GD* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 386 pp. text. xii pp. index & blank pages at rear.* Description: The first of three volumes of essays on wasps translated from the French by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. This is a serious treatise on insects and their behaviour patterns. It is an early attempt to explain the social structure of insect communities and was considered groundbreaking when first published..* A GOOD copy of the 1st. edition with… Read More

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1916. Hardback, green cloth, gilt titles to spine and front. 19.5cm x 14.5cm. ix, 393pp. Gilt titles to spine dulled, spine ends frayed. Previous owner's label to front end-papers. A decent copy. (a13). Hard Cover. Good.

New York: Dodd, Mead. Very Good. 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover in tan boards imprinted with a pattern formed by wasp silhouettes. Top edge gilt (though a little dusty) . No dust jacket. First printing of first edition of this classic work. Book is sturdy, with tight binding and clean pages. Wear along board edges, especially at tips of corners. Previous owner's name on front pastedown page. Gilt title on front and spine is bright. 427 pp. Including index. .

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Hardback. New.

London ; Toronto : Hodder and Stoughton, 1916. First Collected Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked, decorated cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Tanned prelims; foxing to edges. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 393 p.; 20 cm. Subjects: Animals; Zoology; Wasps; Gu�pes.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Dodd, Mead, 1919T. hardcover. Good. 1.1102 9.1299 6.5709.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Dodd, Mead, January 1919. Hardcover. Good. good clean copy with private library label on facing front endpaper and cracked back endpaper at spine

Toronto, London, New York: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd.. Later Edition. Hardcover. Finely bound in contemporary gilt-blocked aniline calf. Remains preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Series: The Works of J. H. Fabre. Physical description; 427 pages. Notes; No clear date given. Subjects; J. Henri Fabre. Fiction.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1916]. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. From the American sheets. Green cloth, stamped in gilt. A fine book in a very nearly fine dust jacket. Scarce in jacket in this conditon. The first of the author's three volumes on wasps, the others being The Mason Wasps and More Hunting Wasps.