Description:
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. NO Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Second impression of the true first UK edition, published in 1954. The printer's page states: 'First published in Great Britain October 1953, second impression 1954. The book was originally published in English translation in the USA, by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York in 1953. ***Edited by and translated from the French by H. M. Parshley, Professor Emeritus of Zoology at Smith College. Good in grey duotone cloth-covered boards, over a blue cloth covered spine (faded), with gilt titles to the spine.