The Children's Life of the Bee
by Maeterlinck, Maurice
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Dodd Mead & Company. Very Good. 1920. Reprint. Hardcover. 192 p. 21 cm. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards, with colour paste-down illustration that matches one of the internal plates. Light wear to the edges and corners, with a couple of tiny dings to the top edges. Spine is darkened with spots, and the titles on it dulled. Top edge of text block has a tiny soil spot. Inside pages are clean and unmarked overall with some toning. An English edition of a children's book by Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck, which describes the life and activity of bees. Illustrated with five colour plates. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5324
- Title
- The Children's Life of the Bee
- Author
- Maeterlinck, Maurice
- Illustrator
- Edward J. Detmold
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Dodd Mead & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1920
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....