For the Love of Bees: Story of Brother Adam of Buckfast Abbey by Bill, Lesley - 1989-02-23

HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st?* Date of Publication: 1989* Publisher: David & Charles.* Binding and cover condition: Chestnut brown cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper showing Brother Adam with a frame of bees, black and brown titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £9.95. Some slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. In clear attached protective library wrapper. VG++* Contents condition: Ex-Library copy with usual stamps and labels. Front end-paper removed. Top edge slightly aged. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no other visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: One x 16pp. block of b/w photos & b/w line drawings and diagrams within text throughout.* Pages: 151 pp. text. x pp., bibliography, chronology, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: A fascinating portrait of Brother Adam, Benedictine monk at Buckfast Abbey, and the methods he followed to become the world?s foremost bee-breeder in his quest to develop the perfect honey-bee set against the back-cloth of monastic life.* A NEAR VG++ ex-library copy of the 1st thus with some minor faults in a VG++ protected dust jacket.*