Happy: The Life of a Bee
by McCaleb, Walter Flavius. Illustrated By Clement B. Davis
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1917. First edition [1917] of this fairly scarce fictional autobiography of a honey bee, illustrated and decorated throughout with line drawings. Green cloth lettered in gilt, 120 pages, no dustjacket. Covers lightly rubbed with heavier rubbing to the extremities, gilt a little dulled but clearly legible, good hinges, sound text block, occasionally age-toned but clean pages with a few instances of light fingerprinting to the margins, no names or other markings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028885
- Title
- Happy: The Life of a Bee
- Author
- McCaleb, Walter Flavius. Illustrated By Clement B. Davis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1917
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- FICTIONAL HONEY BEE INSECT AUTOBIOGRAPHY LIFE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science, Medicine & Nature; Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
We pack well and ship promptly. Returns: Books may be returned for refund of purchase price within seven days provided prior notification is given and the books are returned in the same condition as when shipped.
About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.