Signed by author on title page. 228pp. Brown cloth-covered boards; black titles on spine. 8vo. Rubbed bottom corners and spine ends, some small indentations to front board. Red stain to fore text block edge otherwise internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped.
From the back of the book, "In Tales from the Ant World, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Wilson takes us on a myrmecological tour to such far-flung destinations as Mozambique and New Guinea, the Gulf of Mexico's Dauphin Island and even his parent's overgrown backyard, thrillingly relating his nine-decade-long scientific obsession with over 15,000 ant species".