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Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: None as Issued. First Edition, First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated green softcover/VG; strong & sound w/edge & surface rubs & faint creasings to corner tips. Light brown spotting (acidic paper reaction) to text blocks. Classic, informative natural history of the fly wrtten for lay readers (middle school and up) with great wit and humour by Boston-born, expert in insect neurophyisiology, Vincent Gaston Dethier (1915 - 1993). 119 pgs, illustrated with cartoons, in 10 chapters (each opening with quotes from Alice in Wonderland, nonsense rhymes from Edward Lear, and the like). All to know about much maligned fly --- it has been reported, many a reader has given to laboriously jarring caught house-flies in order to free them outdoors. …