Spider, Egg, and Microcosm
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 243pp. introduction by E.B. White. from front flap: "SPIDER, EGG, AND MICROCOSM takes the reader into three strange and wonderful worlds of scientific inquiry. Here he will be entranced as he observes with Dr. Petrunkevitch the mysterious ways of the spider; as he gazes shoulder by shoulder with Dr. Romanoff into the depths of that miraculous source of life, the avian egg; or as he catches through the microscope with Dr. Vishniac astonishing glimpses of the infinite realm of the microcosmos, which is everywhere about us but always beneath the threshold of unaided sight." Book VG: mild shelf wear boards and spine, offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight / DJ VG: age toning/foxing, small closed tear, NOT clipped ($4.00 net) crossed through in pen. Item #1560
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