Won a book

[VEG]

Our association AGM last night I won a book called

THE LIFE OF THE BEE MAURICE MAETERLINCK it is in a one condition and comes in its own box it is signed by the author in 1910 It has not been read. How would I find out what its worth? There isnt one like it on e-bay

 

[Repwoc]

No idea what it's worth but it sounds like a nice prize. It can be read on line here: http://www.eldritchpress.org/mm/b.html#toc

Is yours in French? It looks like it was translated in 1928.

 

[VEG]

The original was written in may 1901 and translated this is a 1909 copy. I am trying to search the internet for more details.

 

[thurrock bees]

well done veg, i would do ask your Father suggests, get a lotto ticket

 

[steve1958]

I like the description of a Bee sting. Very colourful:
"A legend of menace and peril still clings to the bees. There is the distressful recollection of her sting, which produces a pain so characteristic that one knows not wherewith to compare it; a kind of destroying dryness, a flame of the desert rushing over the wounded limb, as though these daughters of the sun had distilled a dazzling poison from their father's angry rays, in order more effectively to defend the treasure they gather from his beneficent hours".