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Collecting Cocoons

by Lois J. Hussey and Catherine Pessino

Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1953

hardcover-  73 pages

cover and inside page - the name of former

owner has been hidden with white-out.

no markings inside book

our price:   $4.95 plus media mail shipping

Love Among The Butterflies: The Travels and

Adventures of a Victorian Lady

by Margaret Fountaine

Little, Brown, and Company, 1980

hardcover -  224 pages

two first blank pages slightly wrinkled

no dust cover, no markings

our price:   $2.95 plus media mail shipping

The Fascinating World of Butterflies

adapted from Charles Ferdinand’s “Les plus beaux Papillons”

by L. Hugh Newman

Hanover House, 1958

hardcover -  former library book, no dust jacket

96 pages - many photos

all pages intact but binding is slightly loosened

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Butterflies of New Jersey - A Guide To Their Status,

Distribution, Conservation, and Appreciation

by Michael Gochfeld and Joanna Burger

Rutgers University Press, 1997

softcover -  327 pages

very good condition

our price:   $5.95 plus media mail shipping

A Child’s Book of Insects

by Sy Barlowe

Maxton Books for Little People

Maxton Publishers, 1952

vintage hardcover -  28 pages - excellent illustrations

plastic covering on the book is peeling away

fairly good condition considering age, no markings

our price:   $4.95 plus media mail shipping

The Natural Way to Pest-Free Gardening

by Jack Kramer

Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1972

softcover -  118 pages, excellent illustrations

good condition - some wear to cover and slightly

chipped binding

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

The Real Book About Bugs, Insects, and Such

by Jane Sherman

Garden City Books, 1952

hardcover -  152 pages, former owner’s name

is stamped on first page

good condition, no markings

our price:   $5.95 plus media mail shipping

The World of Ants - Golden Library of Knowledge

by G. Collins Wheat

Golden Press, 1959

vintage hardcover -  56 pages

good condition considering age - no markings

cover shows wear as indicated in photo

our price:   $4.95 plus media mail shipping

How and Why - Butterflies and Moths

Wonder Books, 1963

48 pages, markings on two of the pages

former owner’s name inside page

Bantam Books, 2000 revised and updated edition

softcover -  48 pages

book shows wear - first page is separated

our price:   $2.95 plus media mail shipping

How and Why - Ants and Bees

Wonder Books, 1962

48 pages, former owner’s name inside page

softcover -  48 pages - cover shows wear

book shows wear - pages are all intact but they

have separated as a unit from the binding

our price:   $2.95 plus media mail shipping

Where Do They Go? Insects in Winter

by Millicent E. Selsam

Scholastic, 1981

softcover - 32 pages

our price:   $2.95 plus media mail shipping

The Monarch Butterfly

by F.A. Urquhart

University of Toronto Press, 1960

softcover - 361 pages

fairly good condition considering age.

no markings

collector’s item

front cover has crease as shown in photo

our price:   $22.95 plus media mail shipping

Questions and Answers About Ants

by Millicent E. Selsam

Four Winds Press, 1967

hardcover - 75 pages

former library book

binding has been taped - pages all intact
no markings

our price:   $3.50 plus media mail shipping

Questions and Answers About Ants

by Millicent E. Selsam

Scholastic, 1967

softcover - 71 pages

pages all intact
no markings

small chip on spine

our price:  $2.50  plus media mail shipping

National Audubon Society -The World of Insects

Nature Program Series

vintage booklet with wildlife stickers

by Alexander B. Klots

Nelson Doubleday, 1966

63 pages - softcover

cover is stained from removal of stickers

our price:   $1.95 plus media mail shipping

Be Nice To Spiders

by Margaret Bloy Graham

Harper & Row, 1967

vintage hardcover - 32 pages

no markings

white-out has been applied to stain on front cover

as shown in photo

our price:   $2.50 plus media mail shipping

Let’s Look at Some Insects

by Ella Bruce

Medici Society Ltd., 1977

softcover - 24 pages

very good condition

no markings

our price:   $1.95 plus media mail shipping

How and Why - Insects

Wonder Books, 1960

vintage softcover -  48 pages

binding shows wear but all pages are intact

no markings

our price:   $2.95 plus media mail shipping

The World of Nature - Butterflies

by John Farrand, Jr.

Gallery Books, 1990

hardcover - 64 pages

stunning color photographs

good condition

no markings

our price:   $3.50 plus media mail shipping

A Child’s Book of Butterflies

by Edward Godwin

Maxton Publishers, 1956

First Edition

vintage hardcover - 28 pages

former owner’s name inside cover

plastic film is peeling off cover and binding

no markings

our price:   $3.50 plus media mail shipping

Spiders - National Geographic Books for Young Explorers

by Lillian Bason

National Geographic, 1974

hardcover - 32 pages

good condition, no markings

cover shows some wear

our price:   $3.50 plus media mail shipping

Insects of the World

by Walter Linsenmaier

McGraw-Hill, 1972

hardcover - 392 pages

excellent resource

very good condition

no markings

our price:   $3.50 plus media mail shipping

A Golden Junior Guide - Butterflies & Moths

by George Fitcher

Golden Book, 1993

hardcover - 36 pages

excellent condition

no markings

our price:   $3.95 plus media mail shipping

The Encyclopedia of Butterflies

by John Feltwell

Prentice Hall, 1993

hardcover - 288 pages

excellent resource

good condition - beautiful photos

small spots on first two introductory pages -

rest of the pages - new condition

no markings

our price:   $8.95 plus media mail shipping

The Wonderful World of Butterflies and Moths

by Robert Goodden

Hamlyn, 1977

hardcover - 96 pages

excellent resource

good interior condition - no markings

dust cover shows wear

our price:   $4.25 plus media mail shipping

The Nature Library - Butterflies

by Clarence M. Weed,

Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926

antique collector’s item - hardcover

fairly good condition - shows some age

48 illustrations in full color

286 pages

our price:   $8.95 plus media mail shipping

National Audubon Society - Nature’s Architects

Nature Program Series

vintage booklet with wildlife stickers

by Charles E. Mohr

Nelson Doubleday, 1959

64 pages - softcover

cover is stained from removal of sticker

our price:   $1.95 plus media mail shipping

A Field Guide to the Insects of America North of Mexico

by Donald J. Borror and Richard E. White

Houghton Mifflin, 1970

former library book - no markings

404 pages - hardcover

our price:   $49.95 plus media mail shipping

Little Nature Library - Butterflies Worth Knowing

by Clarence M. Weed,

Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928

antique collector’s item - hardcover

fairly good condition - shows some age

illustrated by 48 plates, 32 in color

286 pages (pp. 207-208 missing)

former library book - writing on inside cover

our price:   $5.95 plus media mail shipping

The Busy Little Honeybee

by Josephine Morse True

Rand McNally & Company, 1936

vintage hardcover

fair condition - shows some age

63 pages

cover shows wear as pictured

our price:   $3.50 plus media mail shipping

The Observer’s Book of the Larger British Moths

compiled by R.L.E. Ford, F.R.E.S., F.Z.S.

Frederick Warne & Company,

Observer’s Pocket Series

vintage hardcover

fair condition - shows some age

224 pages

cover shows some fading as pictured

our price:   $7.95 plus media mail shipping

Wasps at Home

By Bianca Lavies

Dutton Children’s Books, 1991

hardcover - spectacular color photographs

like new condition - 32 pages

our price:  $4.95  plus media mail shipping

The Armies of the Ant

The American Museum of Natural History’s The New Explorers

Based on the experiences of Dr. Charles L. Hogue

World Publishing Company, 1972

hardcover

234 pages

our price:  $4.50  plus media mail shipping

Six-Legged Neighbors

by Bertha Morris Parker

Row, Peterson and Company, 1949

vintage hardcover - former library book

cover shows wear

38 pages

our price:  $3.50  plus media mail shipping

The Insect Parade

by Glenn O. Blough

Row, Peterson and Company, 1949

vintage hardcover - former library book

cover shows wear

38 pages

our price:  $3.50  plus media mail shipping

Ant Cities

by Arthur Dorros

Scholastic, 1987

softcover - back cover has crease

32 pages - no markings

our price:  $1.50  plus media mail shipping

Giant Swallowtail Butterfly

NOT A BOOK BUT A NATURAL WOOD

ARTS CREATION - 54 pieces

complete kit

size 11.5” x 11.5” x 7”

box seals have been broken

and box shows aging but the wood creation and

instructions are all intact and the kits has never been assembled

our price:   $3.95 plus shipping

Questions and Answers About Bees

by Betty Polisar Reigot

Scholastic, 1983

softcover, 40 pages

former owner’s name inside front cover

our price:   $2.95 plus shipping

Insects in Their World

written and illustrated by Su Zan N. Swain

Garden City Books, 1954

vintage hardcover, 54 pages

very good condition

former owner’s name on first page

our price:   $9.95 plus shipping

Honeybees

Books for Young Explorers - National Geographic Society

by Janet Lecht

National Geographic Society, 1973

hardcover, 32 pages

fairly good condition

former owner’s name on first page

our price:   $2.95 plus shipping

The World of Ants - Golden Library of Knowledge

by G. Collins Wheat

Golden Press, 1959

vintage hardcover -  56 pages

good condition considering age - no markings

cover shows wear as indicated in photo

our price:   $4.95 plus media mail shipping

Book Without a Name (a.k.a. The Bee Book)

by Kit Williams

Alfred A. Knopf, 1984

hardcover -  very good condition

stunningly beautiful illustrations

32  pages

$4.50 plus media mail shipping

Pests and Diseases

Time-Life Encyclopedia of Gardening

by Richard H. Cravens

used hardcover - fairly good condition

1977

160 pages   

our price:   $3.95 plus media mail shipping

The Insects

Life Nature Library

by Peter Farb

used hardcover - fairly good condition

1962

192 pages   

our price:   $3.95 plus media mail shipping

A Golden Exploring Earth Book - Insects

by Richard H. Cravens

Golden Press, 1975

vintage softcover - fairly good condition

former owner’s name on first page

48 pages   

our price:   $3.95 plus media mail shipping

Those Beautiful Butterflies

by Sarah Cussen

Pineapple Press, 2008

softcover, 56 pages

large-print juvenile nonfiction book

very good - like-new condition

our price:   $3.50 plus media mail shipping

No Bones - A Key to Bugs and Slugs, Worms and Ticks, Spiders and Centipedes, and Other Creepy Crawlies

by Elizabeth Shepherd

Macmillan Publishing, 1988

hardcover, 90 pages

very good  condition

our price:   $8.95 plus media mail shipping

Backyard Insects

by Millicent E. Selsam and Ronald Goor

Scholastic Book Services, 1981

softcover,  40 pages

no underlinings or highlighting

good reading copy - pages are intact

our price:   $3.50 plus media mail shipping

Insect - Eyewitness Books

by Laurence Mound

Dorling Kindserley Limited, 1990

First American Edition stated

hardcover, very good condition

incredible resource - amazing photos

64 pages - no markings

our price:   $6.95  plus media mail shipping

Silkworm Moths

by Dina Drits

Lerner Publications Company, 2002

NEW BOOK!!!!!!

48  pages -

our price:   $6.50  plus media mail shipping

A Field Guide to the Butterflies of North America, East of the Great Plains

by Alexander B. Klots

illustrated with color paintings of 247 species by Marjorie Sratham and 232 photographs by Florence Longworth

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951, eighth printing

vintage hardcover, 349  pages -excellent condition

no dustjacket

our price:   $14.95  plus media mail shipping

The Little Hobby Bookshelf -

Butterflies and Moths

written and illustrated by Harry Zarchy

World Publishing Company, 1966

vintage hardcover - good condition

48 pages - great color illustrations

our price:   $5.95  plus media mail shipping

The Butterfly Book - An Easy Guide to Butterfly Gardening, Identification, and Behavior

by Donald and Lillian Stokes/Ernest Williams

Little, Brown & Company, 1991

softcover, 96 pages

very good condition

our price:   $6.50 plus media mail shipping

Color Treasury of Butterflies and Moths

A Kaleidoscope of Living Color

Crescent Books, Orbis Publishing Limited, 1972

vintage hardcover, 64 pages

good condition - pages are intact and without markings

beautiful color photos

our price:   $4.75 plus media mail shipping

All Color Book of Insects

by Michael Tweedie

Octopus Books, 1973

vintage hardcover, 72 pages

good condition - pages are intact and without markings

stunning color photos

our price:   $7.95 plus media mail shipping

Butterflies in the Garden

by Carol Lerner

Scholastic, 2003

softcover, 32 pages

good condition

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Entomology - With lots of adventures, projects, and ideas for exploring the world of butterflies, ants, dragonflies, crickets and all the other insects

by Ellen Doris produced in association with the

Children’s School of Science - Woods Hole,

Massachusetts

Real Kids, Real Science Books

Thames and Hudson, 1993

hardcover, 64 pages

good condition

our price:   $6.95 plus media mail shipping

Simon & Schuster’s Guide to Insects

by Dr. Ross H. Arnett, Jr. and

Dr. Richard L. Jacques, Jr.

Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1981

softcover, 512 pages

good condition

our price:   $8.95 plus media mail shipping

National Audubon Society Field Guide

to North American  Butterflies

by Robert Michael Pyle

Alfred A. Knopf, 2006

softcover, 927  pages

good condition

our price:   $11.95 plus media mail shipping

Simon & Schuster’s Guide to Insects

by Dr. Ross H. Arnett, Jr. and

Dr. Richard L. Jacques, Jr.

Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1981

softcover, 512 pages

good condition

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Simon & Schuster’s Guide to Insects

by Dr. Ross H. Arnett, Jr. and

Dr. Richard L. Jacques, Jr.

Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1981

softcover, 512 pages

good condition

our price:   $8.95 plus media mail shipping

Simon & Schuster’s Guide to Butterflies

& Moths

by Mauro Daccordi, Paolo Triberti,

Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1987

vintage hardcover, 383 pages

380 beautiful color photos

very good condition

our price:   $10.95 plus media mail shipping

An Introduction to the Study of Insects

Fifth Edition

by Donald J. Borror, Dwight M. DeLong, Charles A. Triplehorn

Saunders College Publishing, 1981

vintage hardcover, 827 pages

good condition

our price:   $24.95 plus media mail shipping

Peterson First Guides - Butterflies and Moths

by Paul A. Opler

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994

softcover, 128 pages

good condition

our price:   $5.95 plus media mail shipping

The Audubon Society Field Guide to North

American Insects and Spiders

by Lorus and Margey Milne

University of new Hampshire

Alfred A. Knopf, 1980

First printing

leather bound softcover,  992 pages

incredible photos

excellent condition

our price:  $12.95 plus media mail shipping

Insect Pests

A Guide to More Than 350 Pests of Home, Garden, Field, and Forest

A Golden Nature Guide

Western Publishing Company, 1966

vintage softcover,  160 pages

first page and content page have spotted markings

cover shows wear

our price:  $4.50 plus media mail shipping

Peterson Field Guides - Insects #19

by Donald J. Borror/ Richard E. White

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970

softcover, 404 pages

very good condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

The Butterflies of the White Mountains of

New Hampshire

by Warren J. Kiel

The Audubon Society of New Hampshire, 2003

hardcover, 196 pages

first printing - like new condition

our price:  $17.95 plus media mail shipping

The Spirit of the Butterflies

Myth, Magic, and Art

by Maraleen Manos-Jones

Harry N. Abrams, 2000

hardcover, 144 pages

good condition

our price:   $14.95 plus media mail shipping

Peterson Field Guides - Insects #19

by Donald J. Borror/ Richard E. White

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970

softcover, 404 pages

very good condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

A Field Guide to the Butterflies of North America, East of the Great Plains

Peterson Field Guides  #4

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951

softcover, 349 pages

former library book

our price:   $6.95 plus media mail shipping

National Audubon Society Pocket Guide

Insects and Spiders

Alfred A. Knopf, 2007

by John Farrand, Jr.

pocket-sized softcover - good condition

great illustrations, excellent resource

192 pages   

our price:   $4.95 plus media mail shipping


The Audubon Society Field Guide to North

American Insects and Spiders

by Lorus and Margey Milne

University of New Hampshire

Alfred A. Knopf, 1980

First printing

leather bound softcover,  992 pages

incredible photos

excellent condition

our price:  $12.95 plus media mail shipping

Simon & Schuster’s Guide to Insects

by Dr. Ross H. Arnett, Jr. and

Dr. Richard L. Jacques, Jr.

Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1981

softcover, 512 pages

good condition

our price:   $8.95 plus media mail shipping

The Life Cycle of a Butterfly

by Trevor Terry & Margaret Linton

The Bookwright Press, 1988

hardcover - 32 pages   

good condition

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Butterfly Book - The Complete Guide to Butterfly Gardening Identification and Behavior

by Donald and Lillian Stokes and Ernest Williams

Little, Brown, & Company, 1991

softcover,  96 pages

good condition

our price:   $6.95 plus media mail shipping

Garden Butterflies of North America

A Gallery of Garden Butterflies & How to

Attract Them

by Rick Mikula

Willow Creek Press, 1997

softcover,  143 pages

very good condition

our price:   $6.95 plus media mail shipping

Young Naturalists’s Pop-Up Handbook

Beetles

by Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart

Hyperion Books for Children

First Edition, 2001

hardcover - good condition, 12 pages

stunning pop-up figures  

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

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National Audubon Society Field Guide

to North American  Butterflies

by Robert Michael Pyle

Alfred A. Knopf, 1997

softcover, 927  pages

good condition

former library stamp on outer edge of pages

our price:   $11.95 plus media mail shipping

The Wasps

by Howard E. Evans and Mary Jane West Eberhard

The University of Michigan Press, 1970

vintage hardcover, 927  pages

good condition

our price:   $16.95 plus media mail shipping

The Life Cycles of Butterflies

From Egg to Maturity, A Visual Guide to 23

Common Garden Butterflies

by Judy Burris & Wayne Richards

Storey Publishing, 2006

softcover, 152 pages

very good condition

our price:   $7.95 plus media mail shipping

Caterpillars, Bugs, and Butterflies

Take-Along Guide

by Mel Boring

illustrations by Linda Garrow

by Judy Burris & Wayne Richards

North Word Books for Young Readers, 1996

softcover, 48 pages

good condition

our price:   $5.50 plus media mail shipping

Butterfly Garden - Ready to Read

written by Margaret McNamara

illustrated by Mike Gordon

Scholastic, 2012

softcover, 32 pages

very good condition

our price:   $3.95 plus media mail shipping

Butterflies and Moths

Eyewitness Handbooks

by David Carter

DK Publishing, 1992

softcover, 304 pages

very good condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Stories from Bug Garden

by Lisa Moser

illustrated by Gwen Millward

Candlewick Press, 2016

hardcover, 32 pages

very good condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Butterfly & Moth - Eyewitness Books

by L Paul Whalley

Dorling Kindserley Limited, 1988

First American Edition stated

hardcover, very good condition

incredible resource - amazing photos

64 pages - no markings

our price:   $6.95  plus media mail shipping

 

National Audubon Society Field Guide

to Insects & Spiders

by Lorus & Margery Milne

Alfred A. Knopf, 1980

softcover, 989 pages

good condition

our price:   $10.95 plus media mail shipping

The Butterfly Guide

A Pocket Manual for the Identification of the Commoner Species Found in United States and Canada

by W.J. Holland, LL.D.

Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915

vintage softcover, 237 pages

cover shows wear

our price:   $12.95 plus media mail shipping

The Audubon Society Field Guide

to North American Insects & Spiders

by Lorus & Margery Milne

Alfred A. Knopf, 1988

softcover, 992 pages

good condition

our price:   $10.95 plus media mail shipping

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Peterson First Guides - Eastern Butterflies

by Paul A. Opler / Vichai Malikul

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998

softcover, 486 pages

very good condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Insects in the Pond

Reviewed for accuracy by Walter L. Gojmerac

Nature Close-Ups

Raintree Publishers, 1986

vintage hardcover, 32 pages

former library book

great color photos

our price:   $4.95 plus media mail shipping

The Insect Societies

by Edward O. Wilson

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,

vintage oversized hardcover, 548 pages

former library book

good condition

our price:   $24.95 plus media mail shipping

Butterfly & Moth

written by Paul Whalley

DK Eyewitness Books, 1988

hardcover- 64 pages

fairly good condition

our price:   $4.95 plus media mail shipping

Simon & Schuster’s Guide to Insects

by Dr. Ross H. Arnett, Jr. and

Dr. Richard L. Jacques, Jr.

Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1981

softcover, 512 pages

good condition

our price:   $8.95 plus media mail shipping

Simon & Schuster’s Guide to Insects

Orders and Major Families of North

American Insects

by Ralph B. Swain

beautiful illustrations by SuZan N. Swain

Doubleday and Company, 1948

vintage hardcover, 259 pages

good condition

our price:   $10.95 plus media mail shipping

Insects - A Guide to Familiar American Insects

A Golden Nature Guide

225 Species in Full Color

by Herbert S. Zim and Clarance Cottam

illustrated by James Goirdon Irving

Golden Press, 1956

vintage softcover, 160 pages

appears to be missing page 3-4

fair condition

our price:   $4.95 plus media mail shipping

All About Moths and Butterflies

by Robert S. Lemmon

Random House,  1956

vintage hardcover, 148 pages

former library book - no dustjacket

very good condition

our price:   $7.95 plus media mail shipping

A is For Ants

Linoleum Cuts and Text by Lara Gibson

Sweet Leaf Press, 1994

beautiful unique hardcover, 148 pages

It is Book 5 of an edition of 16

rare collector’s item

signed by Lara Gibson

good condition

our price:   $24.95 plus media mail shipping