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Unusual Bee Books:

Looking for a different gift for a beekeeper or somebody interested in bees? Try "The Life of the Bee" by Maurice Maeterlinck, as translated by Alfred Sutro.
There are two copies available:-

A first edition (1901) in mint condition.........$35.00*

SOLD A 1921 edition in fair condition...................$15.00* SOLD
This is a charming book about bees, written at the turn of the century. The author's experiments to find out how bees communicate the location of nectar sources are fascinating! 

City of the Bees by Frank S. Stuart;  .............$10.00*
This is another unusual book about bees, it was written in 1947 and is a rather poetic look at the activities of a colony of bees and explores the parallels and contrasts of bee and human behaviour.

* (plus p & p if required)

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