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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Features: Robert Frost - Poet of New England; Are Federal Offices for Sale? - Patronage bartered in Mississippi; In Defense of College Athletics; What of the Filipinos? - They Say We Don't Understand Them - photo-illustrated article; War Veteran Vice-President elected on tiny campaign budget; What Dieting Did For Bill; Mr. Ford's Page; Editorials; The Futility of Birth Control; Rough And Ready's Legacy to California - An Old Mining camp of the 49ers Which Inspired Bret Harte; The Alcotts As I Knew Them; Tornado Facts; The Passing of the Porridge Pot; Church Gems of Italy; and more. 32 pages. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy.; 4to.

pp.xxx, 281 with fold-out illus. frontis. and 11 further engravings, 1 being fold-out. 8vo. Hardback. Signature, dated January 1918, to ffep. Light spotting to ends and occ. internally, o/w. contents fine. Some sections uncut. Original cloth boards spine professionally relaid in thor. vg. condition. A very pleasing copy. (Harding 215). Interestingly, this copy comes with a seldom seen typed note tipped in at title page which reads 'Also may be had on application to my agent, Mr. G. Neighbour, 131, High Holborn, near Southampton Street, London, honey taken on the principles here specified, with hives stocked with bees, or unstocked. All letters must be post paid'. 'Nutt lived as a boy at Wisbech. A draper's assistant of no great schooling, he became interested in bees during a long convalescence. He asserts that he invented his collateral hive before ever reading a book on bees. He acquired many patrons and subscribers and made the hive and method very well known.' (Harding).

pp.xxxiv, 306 with fold-out engraved frontis., one further fold-out engraved plate (of the apiary at Delabere Park, Berkshire) and 10 other engravings. 8vo. Hardback. Neat signature date 1855 and small blind stamp of J. Calt, Bookseller to the Queen [Victoria] to ffep. Just occasional minor spotting and marking o/w. contents fine. Original blind-decorated boards in thor. vg. condition. A very pleasing copy indeed. Harding 215. This work benefited greatly from revisions and enlargements. 'Nutt lived as a boy at Wisbech. A draper's assistant of no great schooling, he became interested in bees during a long convalescence. He asserts that he invented his collateral hive before ever reading a book on bees. He acquired many patrons and subscribers and made the hive and method very well known.' (Harding).

pp.xxx, 281 with engraved frontis., one further fold-out engraved plate (of the apiary at Delabere Park, Berkshire) and 10 other engravings. 8vo. Hardback. Signature, dated 23rd July 1839 to ffep. Traces of ancient bookworm to fore-edge margin of later pages, text not effected, o/w. contents fine. Original decorated cloth boards, a little rubbed on corners, spine neatly relaid. Harding 215. 'Nutt lived as a boy at Wisbech. A draper's assistant of no great schooling, he became interested in bees during a long convalescence. He asserts that he invented his collateral hive before ever reading a book on bees. He acquired many patrons and subscribers and made the hive and method very well known.' (Harding).