Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$24.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: viii, 271 pages, [12] leaves of color plates : illustrations ; 26 cm. Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.
Seller: Cambridge Books, Cambridge, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$39.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: viii, 271 pages, [12] leaves of color plates : illustrations. This is an attractive copy of the first printing of this edition. Publisher's binding sturdy, mild wear to corners and to head and foot of spine, gold-stamped lettering and device to front panel and to spine faded but good; previous owner's stamp to upper fore-corner of front pastedown and front free endpaper, contents fine, all twelve tipped-in plates and tissue guards present. 1340 grams.
Seller: Carothers and Carothers, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
Fabre, Jean Henri. Fabre's Book of Insects. Tudor Publishing Company, New York, 1935.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The first printing of this new edition. Gilt-decorated green cloth, 271 pp, 12 color plates tipped in. Name in ink on front free endpaper. Dust jacket worn and soiled, missing one-inch piece at head of spine. Retold by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell from the translation by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos of Fabres "Souvenirs Entomologiques." Lacking slipcase. Size: Sm 4to
Seller: Possum Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$99.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Green cloth decorated in gilt. Stated 5th printing. Tight and square with foxing to block edge, hint of mottling to boards. 12 tipped-in color plates. The DJ in mylar is foxed, worn to points, few short closed tears with inner tape reinforcement, price clipped. In the original box which is somewhat worn/foxed. ; quarto; 271 pages
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 271 pages. Easy to read larger print, illustrated with 12 tipped-in plates in full color, over captioned tissue guards. Green cloth boards with gilt decorations and writing, good binding, inscription on endpaper. DJ has heavy tears and creases. Chapters include The Sacred Beelte, Cicada, Praying Mantis, Glow-Worm, Mason-Was, Psyches, Spanish Copris, Grasshoppers, Wasps, Grub, Cricket, Sisyphus, capricorn, Locusts, Anthrax Fly . Illustrations include: The Sacred Beetle, The Cicada, Praying Mantis, The Psyches, The Spanish Copris, The White-Faced Decticus, Common Wasps, The Field Cricket - all the illustrations are present
Seller: Bookshop Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 271pp. Quarto [27.5 cm] Green cloth over boards, lettered and pictorially stamped in gilt on the spine and front cover. Title page printed in red and black. Tissue guards with descriptive letterpress. There are areas of very faint moisture staining to the boards, and there are several small, dark stains on the backstrip. Internally, very clean. Complete, all plates present. In the paper cover box, with an illustrated paper label on the top of the box. The box is moderately soiled and abraded. Illustrated with lovely tipped-in color plates by E. J. Detmold. Charming and scientific stories of insect life.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: x, 271, 12 col plates. . HB. Fine copy in fine d/w with orig. publisher's box; box with minor wear to corners, one corner split with archival tape repair to inside. Rarely found with original box. Original owner's book-plate (Louis J. Synck). New edition. First printing of the Tudor re-issue. Fine mounted colour plates by E.J. Detmold. Jean-Henri Fabre (1823-1915) was a French naturalist, entomologist, and author. He is best known for his observations of living insects and is considered by many to be the father of modern entomology. Fabre combines what he calls 'my passion for scientific truth' with accurate observations and an engaging style of writing, which has contributed to the lasting popularity of his work.
Seller: PEMBERLEY NATURAL HISTORY BOOKS BA, ABA, Iver, United Kingdom
Price: US$222.00 + shipping
Description: 4to. pp. [8], 271. numerous tipped-in colour illus. cloth. (previous owners signature on front free endpaper).
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada