Maeterlinck, Maurice

The Life of the Bee

New York, Dodd, Mead & Co, 1914.
Second-hand hardcover

Maeterlinck, Maurice. The Life of the Bee. Dodd, Mead & Co: New York, 1914. 8vo (195x135mm) half bnd green morocco, marbled bds t.e gilt, [10],427,[7]pp. (translated by Alfred Sutro) Armorial bookplate to fpd; deckled edges; spine lightly sunned;

MAETERLINCK, Maurice. [Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard (1862-1949)]

The Life of the Bee.

New York : Dodd, Mead & Co, 1914. First published in 1901. First published in French in 1900 as La Vie des Abeilles.

Octavo (195x135mm) half bound green morocco, marbled boards and endpapers, raised bands, spine in six compartments decorated with gilt flowers and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, fore-edge untrimmed, heavy cream paid paper [10],427,[7]pp; π⁴,[1]⁸,2-17⁸. Translated by Alfred Sutro.

Binding and boards faintly rubbed; spine lightly sunned; some edge-wear; Armorial bookplate of the Swiss descended family Wurts to the front paste down.

Maeterlinck was a Belgian symbolist poet and playwright who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911 for his contributions to symbolist theatre. Maeterlinck was also a prolific prose essayist; The Life of the Bee is considered his most popular prose work. Sutro (1863-1933) was a British playwright, a life-long friend of Maeterlinck and translator of Maeterlinck's works.

An excellent copy in a fine binding.

Item #10261

Price: $300.00 AUD

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