About this title: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill THE FOUNDATION OF THE CITY LET us rather consider the proceedings of the swarm the apiarist shall have gathered into his hive. And first of all let us not be forgetful of the sacrifice these fifty thousand virgins have made, who, as Ronsard sings, ? " In a little body bear so true a heart, ? " and let us, yet once again, admire the courage with which they begin life anew in the desert whereon they have fallen ...
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Mentor Books, New York
Date Published: 1954
Description: Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. The book is very solid with browned pages. The cover has minor shelf wear & moderate edge wear. There is a 3/8 inch tear on the upper back edge. read more
Binding: Hardbound
Publisher: Dodd, Mead, New York
Date Published: 1913
Description: Very good +/no dj. Top edge gilt. Bookplate. Green blind-stamped cover with bright gilt title on cover and spine. Clean and unmarked with still strong hinges. Maeterlinck became involved in a scandal with this book because he translated it without proper credit. read more
Description: Very Good. Tight book, nice text, wear and discoloration to cover and spine, browning to pages, bookplate on inside cover books may have some minor wearhouse damage. Stickers may be on spine or covers. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: N A L, New York
Date Published: 1954
Description: Fair. Ex-Library. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Edge and corner wear, scuffed and scratched, spine is lightly creased, pages are toning, ex-library with the usual library markings, missing the ffep, overall a nice used first Mentor paperback edition! Color illustrated wrappers. 168 historical and informative pages! "In this detailed, fascinating study of the habits and life of th honey bee, Maruice Maeterlinck has written a glorious and perceptive tribute to the infinite order of the universe----and ... read more
Edition: Later printing
Binding: Green Cloth Hardcover
Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company, New York
Date Published: 1904
Description: Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. [vi], 427pp [joint exposed at rear; front free endpaper cleanly detached, laid in; vintage ink ownership on front free endpaper; light edge and spine-ridge wear to covers] read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Green Decorative Cloth
Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company, New York
Date Published: 1919
Description: Fair. No Jacket. Hardcover. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are lightly bumped and rubbed; some shelf wear; front and rear hinges are cracked; spine is faded; former owner's inscription in ink on the ffep; overall a clean used copy! Green decorative cloth with gilt lettering on the front board and spine. 427 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and informative pages! "In this detailed, fascinating study of the habits and life of ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company, New York
Date Published: 1920
Description: Good- No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Green embossed boards are scuffed and rubbed on edges. Inside hinges beginning to crack. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Dover Pubns
Date Published: 2006-08-04
ISBN-13:9780486451435ISBN:0486451437
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780486451435. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company
Date Published: 1908
Description: Good. The spine is cracked. Wear to the edges of the cover, the top and piece of the spine and a bit at the corners. There are embossed flowers inlaid on this cover with gold gilt lettering clearly seen. On the inside cover and cover page of former owner has done some sketching. The page edge has a few nicks and chips in places. At the end of the volume, some more sketching by the former owner. The text flows freely and cleanly from beginning to end. read more
"My copy is actually 'The Children's Life of the Bee", published in 1923, which I think is the same book but might omit a chapter on some of their more scandalous behavior. It is an almost spiritual examination of the inner workings of a honeybee hive and is truly fascinating and even somehow moving. Maeterlinck also wrote accounts of ants, termites (the white ant), spiders, and other smaller forms of life, but I have yet to track them down. This is a very special book that I would highly recommend to anyone I know."
"these three books by mr. materlinck are all excellently written and all that, but the real interest here is that each of the series (though i haven't found the one about the ants) uses the individual insect as an abeyance to elaborate on a different form of social order; the bees serve as an interesting point by which he compares matriarchy, and the termites (white ants, and this one is my favorite) are evidently reminiscent of communism! That one is excellent, and his writing has a very nice jose saramago clip to it. Evidently he nixed the idea for the termite book from a south african writer who wrote 'The Soul of the White Ant' after living in the jungle and then plugged himself, so i imagine that one's pretty interesting as well."
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