HOW ANIMALS WORK [ROMANCE OF REALITY SERIES]

Probable first edition. 8vo. 264p. Color frontispiece plus 16 full-page black and white plates. Brown cloth with black and white pictorial onlay to front cover and with black letters on the front cover and the spine. Very minor wear to extremities with nothing rubbed through, cover onlay in near fine condition, cloth clean and bright, color frontispiece and black and white plates all present and in fine condition, else near fine to fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket The son of noted paleontologist Peter Martin Duncan, F. Martin Duncan [1873-1961] was as a British naturalist and nature documentary pioneer. He specialized in micro-cinematography and pioneered many of the techniques of future natural history film making. "In the following pages I have tried o present to my readers a point o view of the great realm of animal life which has not received so much attention as some others , and which I venture to believe will be found of considerable interest--namely, animals as craftsmen: as the builders of imperishable monuments that will long outlast the most magnificent ever conceived and executed by man; and as the artificers of the daintiest, most fairy-like structures, so frail as to last but a few short hours." [from the Preface] A most unusual book on animals and their acclivities.…