The World of the Monarch Butterfly (First Edition)

San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1997. First edition, first printing, with full number line including the 1. Hardcover. Black cloth with silver spine lettering. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. Publisher’s original price intact on jacket flap ($27.50). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight clean copy, new and unread. Square octavo, 114 pages. Illustrated throughout with vivid full-color photographs, including close-ups of larvae, chrysalis stages, mating pairs, and vast overwintering colonies in Mexico. An in-depth natural history of the monarch butterfly, integrating scientific insight with stunning visual documentation. Grace covers the monarch’s complete life cycle—from egg to caterpillar to adult—along with its remarkable multigenerational migration across North America. The book also addresses environmental threats to monarch populations and the importance of milkweed habitats. The photographs, many taken in the field, offer an intimate and dramatic view of one of nature’s most iconic species. A perfect unread copy. 4700Q.…