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THE INSECT MAN

by Eleanor Doorly

Illustrated by Robert Gibbings

Published by W. Heffer & Sons Ltd.. 1st. 1936

Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper. A tale of how the Yew Tree children went to France to hear the story of Jean Henri Fabre in the places where he lived and to see the homes of some fo the insects whose life-story he has written. Blue cloth, black titles and vignettes. Illustrated with Woodcuts. xv and 170 pages.

SIGNED by author to front endpaper (dated 1936). Spine faded, corners rubbed. Wrapper is foxed and grubby, edge chipped with a little loss and strengthened with paper to verso.

Stock no. 1606038

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