Little Lives: The Story of the World of Insects

Title page date and copyright page date match. First printing. 271 p. with index and bibliography. Beautifully illustrated with elegant b/w prints. Frontispiece: "The Atlas larva and moth of the Sphinx moth." "The insect histories I have chosen for this book . were selected for their especial interest. Several of them have been taken from Fabre, not only because of his great power of dramatizing his material, but also because the average reader as well as the boys and girls of the new generation are not familiar with his fascinating insect stories. There is a whimsical likeness between the lives of insects and the lives of men." (Author's foreword). Title page illustrated with two ants on a clover leaf. Interior tight and unmarked. Decorated endpapers; the front one and the next page have a 3" tear along the spine. There are a few small smudges on the front endpaper also. Beige cover decorated with same motif as the title page. Black lettering on spine. Corners and edges rubbed. Bottom of spine frayed. "It is a funny little picture to think of the tarantula squatted inside her turret, leaning on her elbows and watching the world go by." Book weighs 1.12 lb. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…