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Bee Books and Beekeeping Books
These fall into several categories...
Beginner's 'How to' books, Encyclopaedic books
Books on specific topics, Secondhand Books
Collectors Books
All types of Beekeeping books can be purchased from the book trade, but
most Beekeeping Associations have libraries of their own that members
may borrow from. Please note the 'Guide prices' were 1999
or 2000 prices and may not represent today's prices very accurately.
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Abbreviations used are HB... Hardback, SB... Softback, PB... Paperback, OOP... Out of Print
"Status" background colours... Pink = In my personal library, Blue = Thinking about acquisition.
| Author | TITLE | Guide Price | Status |
| A.A.P.A. | Protecting Honey Bees from Varroa | £1.50 | |
| AASP | Pollen of the United States | £28.50 | |
| Abbiw | Useful Plants of Ghana | £16.50 | |
| Abbott (C.P) | Queen Breeding for Amateurs | | PB |
| Adam | Beekeeping at Buckfast Abbey | £8.95 | |
| Adam | Breeding the Honeybee | | OOP |
| Adam | In Search of the Best Strains of Bees | £12.00 | |
| Aebi | Mastering the Art of beekeeping Vol 1 | £8.10 | |
| Aebi | Mastering the Art of beekeeping Vol 2 | £9.50 | |
| Alford | Provisional Atlas of Insects (Bumble Bees) | £1.40 | |
| Alston | Hives and Honey Bees in Signs | £7.75 | |
| Atkinson | Micronucs | £3.75 | |
| Atkinson | Background to Bee Breeding | £26.00 | SB |
| Bailey | Honey Bee Pathology | £67.50 | HB |
| Barbosa | Novel Aspects of Insect - Plant Interaction | £57.5 | |
| Barrett | Australian Beekeeping Bibliography | £5.50 | |
| Bates | An Introduction to Bee Houses | £4.75 | |
| Battershill | Beeswax Crafts | £10.95 | |
| BBKA | Honeybee Anatomy | £4.50 | |
| BBKA | Hive Plan Modified National | £1.20 | |
| BBKA | BBKA Hive Plan Smith | £1.20 | |
| BBKA | Hive Plan Langstroth | £1.20 | |
| BBKA | Hive Plan Sundown Floor | £1.20 | |
| BBKA | Hive Plan WBC | £1.20 | |
| BBKA | Bees in the Curriculum | £19.00 | |
| BBKA | Leaflet Finding and Marking the Queen | £1.75 | |
| BBKA | Leaflet Taking a Sample of Adult Bees | £1.75 | |
| Berry | Queen Rearing with Simplicity | £1.85 | |
| Berthold | Beeswax Crafting | £13.25 | |
| Bertholf | Reactions of the Honeybee to Light | | PB |
| Beswick | British Traditional Honey Drinks | £3.00 | |
| BIBBA | Guidelines for Bee Breeding | | SB |
| BIBBA | Video:- Bee Breeding and Queen Rearing | £18.50 | |
| BIBBA | Pedigree Bee Breeding | £4.90 | |
| BIBBA | The Way Ahead | | PB |
| Bolton | Identification of the Ant Genera of the World | £43.00 | |
| Bolton | A New General Catalogue of Ants of the World | £82.00 | |
| Bonney | Hive Management | £11.75 | |
| Bossom | Encaustic Art | £8.95 | |
| Brackenbury | Insects in Flight | £22.60 | |
| BBJ | The Ambrose Colouring Book | £1.25 | |
| Brown | Bees, A Seasonal Guide to Management | £11.00 | |
| Brown | Economical Beekeeping | £1.95 | |
| Brown | Managing Mininucs | £1.95 | |
| Brown | Great Masters of Beekeeping | £13.00 | |
| Brown | Look Listen and Learn | £1.90 | |
| Brown | A Simple Two Queen System | £1.25 | |
| Brown | Beeswax | £11.00 | |
| Brown | Honeybee Swarms | £3.75 | |
| Buckle | Do you know about Honey Bees | £7.75 | |
| Burt | Swarm Control | £0.70 | |
| Butler | The Honeybee | | HB |
| Calder | Recipes using Beeswax Cook Book | £1.50 | |
| Calder | Sweet and Savoury Cook Book | £1.50 | |
| Calder | Health and Honey | £1.50 | |
| CA/PA | Managing Bees for Crop Pollination | £5.00 | |
| CA/PA | Honeybee Diseases and Pests | £4.50 | |
| CA/PA | Honeybee Diseases and Pests 2nd Edition | £5.50 | |
| Clark | A Beekeeping Glossary | £2.00 | |
| Coggshall/Morse | Beeswax | £11.00 | |
| CONBA | Video:- Varroa | £10.00 | |
| Constable | Candle Making, Beginners Guide | £6.95 | |
| Constable | Candlemaking, Creative Techniques | £9.50 | |
| Cook | Honey Prodn./Colony/Queen Cells | | |
| Cooper | The Honeybees of the British Isles | £7.50 | |
| Cotton | A Manual for New Zealand Bee Keepers | | HB |
| Cotton | Buzz a Buzz | £8.85 | |
| Cotton | My Bee Book | | HB |
| Couston | Principles of Practical Beekeeping | £9.75 | |
| Couston | Fly with the Beeman | £9.25 | |
| Cramp | The Beekeepers Field Guide | £14.45 | |
| Crane | Beekeeping | | |
| Crane | World History of Beekeeping | £90.00 | |
| Crane | Bee Hives of the Ancient World | £4.50 | |
| Croft | Curiosities of Beekeeping | £4.25 | |
| Croft | Profitable Beekeeping | £5.75 | |
| Dadant | The Hive and the Honeybee | £38.00 | |
| Dade | Anatomy and Dissection | £21.45 | |
| Dalby | Honey Microwave Cookery Recipes | £1.50 | |
| Darg | A Guide to Swarm Control | £2.50 | |
| Darg | Darg A Hive of Industry | £2.50 | |
| Darg | Living with Varroa Jacobsoni | £2.50 | |
| Darg | Queen Rearing | £2.50 | |
| Darg | Seasonal Management | £2.50 | |
| Darg | The Beeway Code | £2.50 | |
| Darg | The Selection of Apiary Sites | £2.50 | |
| Dartington | Equipment for New Beekeeping | £12 | Spiral |
| Dartington | New Beekeeping in Long Deep Hive | £4.50 | SB |
| Dartington | Management of a Honeybee Colony | | PB |
| Davis | Beekeeping in Swarming Season | £5.00 | SB |
| Davis | The Honey Bee Inside Out | £?? | SB |
| De Bruyn | Practical Beekeeping | £27.00 | |
| Delaplane | Honey Bees and Beekeeping | £16.00 | |
| Dews/Milner | Breeding Better Bees | £3.70 | SB |
| Donovan | Hunting Wild Bees | £9.15 | |
| Drescher | Tech. Co-op Activities | £5.00 | |
| Dublon | Practical Queen Rearing | £12.50 | |
| Dugat | The Skyscraper Hive | | HB |
| Edwards | The Bee-Master of Warrilow | £4.30 | |
| Evans | The Complete Guide to Beekeeping | £18.65 | |
| FAO | Value Added Products from Beekeeping | £35.00 | |
| Fatigati | Bzz - A Beekeepers Primer | £4.25 | |
| Feltwell | Beekeeping | £4.75 | |
| Fert | Breeding Queens | £12.50 | SB |
| FIBKA | Bees, Hives and Honey | | SB |
| Field | Honey Days | £16.75 | HB |
| Field | Honey Days | £11.75 | |
| Field | Honey by the Ton | £8.95 | |
| Field | Beautiful Queens and Honey Too | £1.95 | |
| Foster | Bee Boles and Bee Houses | £3.65 | SB |
| Free | Honeybee Biology | £11.50 | |
| Free | Keeping Bees | £11.50 | |
| Free | The Social Organization of Honey Bees | £5.75 | |
| Frisch (Von) | Bees | £5.00 | |
| Furness | Honey Wines and Beers | £4.00 | |
| Furzey | Video:- Beekeeping | £19.50 | |
| Galton | The Bee Hive | £3.75 | |
| Gess | The Pollen Wasps | £36.00 | |
| Goodwin | Elimination of AFB without Drugs | £8.75 | |
| Gregg | The Philosophy and Practice | £5.00 | |
| Harding | British Books, The Definitive Bibliography | £22.50 | |
| Hawcock | Bouncing Bee | £2.50 | |
| Healey | Microscopes £amp; Microscopic Life | | PB |
| Heath | A Case of Hives | £6.75 | |
| Hepburn | Honeybees and Wax | £47.00 | |
| Hill | Virtues of Honey | £1.00 | |
| Hodges | The Pollen Loads of the Honeybee | £37.50 | |
| Hooper | Guide to Bees and Honey | £17.95 | HB |
| Hooper | Guide to Bees and Honey | £10.95 | SB |
| Howe | Practical Beekeeping | £5.00 | |
| Hull | I want to Dance | £6.50 | |
| Ioyrish | Bees and People | £6.00 | |
| Jackson | Smoking Allowed | £5.95 | |
| Jaycox | Beekeeping Tips and Topics | £6.75 | |
| Jenkins | Queen Raising the Jenkins Way | £2.30 | SB |
| Johansen | Pollinator Protection | £15.00 | |
| Johansson | Apiculture Lit. Published in USA | £6.70 | |
| Johansson | Some Important Operations | £7.95 | |
| Johnston | A Nomad Amongst the Bees | £5.50 | |
| Kirk | The Colour Guide to Pollen Loads | £14.00 | |
| Kirk | Insects on Cabbage £amp; Oilseed Rape | £9.60 | |
| Laidlaw | Instrumental Insemination or Honey Bee Queens | | Spiral |
| Laidlaw/Page | Queen Rearing and Bee Breeding | | |
| Lawes | The Bee Book Book | £9.25 | |
| Lawes | The Bee Book Book | £19.25 | HB |
| Manch. Micro Soc. | First Steps in a Secret World | £3.00 | |
| Mace | Practical Beekeeping | | SB |
| Manley | Honey Farming | £8.95 | |
| Matheson | Practical Beekeeping in New Zealand | £15.00 | |
| Matheson | Living with Varroa | £15.75 | |
| Matheson | Bumble Bees | £9.00 | |
| Matheson | Foraging for Bees/Agricultural Landscapes | £15.75 | |
| Matheson | New Perspectives on Varroa | £16.50 | |
| Mc Arthur | Swarm Trigger Discovered | £5.50 | |
| Mc Greggor | Insect Poll. of Cult. Crop Plants | £18.15 | |
| Mead | Honey Cookery Cook Book | £1.50 | |
| Menzel | Neurobiology and Behavior of Honeybees | £50.00 | |
| Meyer | Microscopy on a Shoestring | | HB |
| Mesquida | Elements of Genetics | £4.00 | |
| Michener | The Social Behavior of the Bee | £33.00 | |
| Miller | Dragonflies | £10.00 | |
| Milner | Beekeeping in Britain | £1.95 | |
| Mobley | Make Your Own Glass Quilt | | PB |
| Mobus | The New Varroa Handbook | £9.50 | |
| Mobus | Pedigree Bee Breeding | £5.90 | |
| Moffett | Justice in Nowata | £6.00 | |
| More | The Bee Book | £8.45 | |
| More | Discovering Beekeeping | £3.50 | PB |
| Morse | A Year in the Bee yard | £7.95 | |
| Morse | Complete Guide to Beekeeping | £7.75 | |
| Morse | Making Mead (Honey Wine) | £7.95 | |
| Morse | Rearing Queen Honey Bees | £10.75 | |
| Morse | Honey Bee Pests, Predators and Diseases | £23.00 | |
| Morse/Hooper | Encyclopedia of Beekeeping (Illustrated) | OOP | HB |
| Mraz | Health and the Honeybee | £10.00 | |
| Munn(ed) | Beeswax and Propolis | £5.75 | |
| NBB | Yorkshire Honey Cookbook | £1.50 | |
| Nijhout | Insect Hormones | £37.50 | |
| Owsianka | The Legend of the Hive | £9.50 | |
| Pam | Varroa Mesh Floors | £4.50 | |
| Park | Dance of the Honeybee-Precis | £5.50 | |
| Pellett | A Living From Bees | | HB |
| Pellett | Productive Bee-keeping | | HB |
| Popescu | The Honey Cookbook | £7.99 | |
| Posthumus | De Bij en Imker (The Bee and Beekeeper) | £13.50 | |
| Proctor | The Natural History of Pollination | £18.45 | |
| Prys. Jones | Bumblebees | £9.75 | |
| Ransome | The Sacred Bee | £12.00 | |
| Rice | Queens' land | £10.95 | |
| Richards £amp; Davies | Imms General Textbook | £25.00 | |
| Riches | Bee Keeping | £4.00 | |
| Riches | A Handbook of Beekeeping | £14.25 | |
| Riches | Honey Marketing | £7.95 | |
| Riches | Mead | £10.40 | |
| Roberts | M B V Biology-A Functional Approach | £16.50 | |
| Root | ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture | £32.00 | |
| Root | The New Starting Right | £4.50 | |
| Root | Queen Management | £5.95 | |
| Root | Swarming | £5.95 | |
| Root | Selling Honey | £5.95 | |
| Russell | Spray Liaison | £3.75 | |
| Ruttner | Biogeography and Taxonomy of Honeybees | £68.00 | |
| Ruttner | Breeding Techniques and Selection | £5.00 | |
| Ruttner | The Dark European Honey Bee | £4.75 | SB |
| Saywer | Honey Identification | £17.25 | |
| SBA | Bees and Beekeeping | £2.50 | |
| Scott | A Murmur of Bees | £4.65 | |
| Seeley | Wisdom of the Hive | £36.25 | |
| Sheffield University | Video:- Dancing for their Supper | £19.50 | |
| Showler | The Observation Hive | £9.85 | |
| Simmins | A Modern Bee Farm | | HB |
| Sims | Sixty Years with Bees | £21.85 | HB |
| Sims | Sixty Years with Bees | £15.00 | |
| Skilling | Sixty Years with Smoker and Veil | £5.75 | |
| Sladen | The Humble Bee | £16.95 | |
| Smailes | Raise Your Own Queens | | SB |
| Smith £amp; Frimston | Beekeeping and the Law | £11.55 | |
| Snelgrove | Swarming | £8.75 | |
| Snelgrove | The Introduction of Queen Bees | | HB |
| Snodgrass | Anatomy of the Honey Bee | £37.95 | HB |
| Snodgrass | Anatomy of the Honey Bee | £16.60 | |
| Stein | Royal Jelly | | PB |
| Stephens-Potter | The Beekeepers Manual | £9.50 | |
| Stuart | Beekeeping 1580-1660 | £5.50 | |
| Style | Honey, From Hive to Honeypot | £11.45 | |
| Susan Cobey | Video:- Instrumental Insemination of Honeybee Queens | £26.50 | |
| Taber | Breeding Super Bees | £13.45 | |
| Taylor | Make Yourself a Nucleus Hive | £1.95 | |
| Taylor | The Best of Bee Talk | £10.25 | |
| Taylor | Make yourself a Honey Warming Cabinet | £4.50 | |
| Teale | The Golden Throng | £11.95 | |
| Thorne | Video:- Search for Varroa in UK | £16.50 | |
| Thorne | Video:- Living with Varroa | £16.40 | |
| Tinsley | That Year at Cornborough | £6.95 | |
| Tompkins | Practical Beekeeping | £7.00 | |
| Tonsley | Honey for Health | £5.25 | |
| Tonz | Two for the Honey | £9.95 | |
| Valli | Hunting for Honey | £36.95 | |
| Verma | Beekeeping in Integrated Dev. | £27.25 | |
| Vernon | Hogs at the Honeypot | £4.75 | |
| Waine | Background to Beekeeping | £13.45 | |
| Walker | Catalogue of Bee Books | £5.85 | |
| Wardle | Honey Cakes and Biscuits | £2.75 | |
| Waring (Adrian) | Better Beginnings for Beekeepers | £6.00 | |
| Waring (Claire) | Video:- Nepal, its Bees £amp; Beekeeping | £17.50 | |
| Watson | The Bee Man of County Clare | £7.50 | |
| Watson | Beekeeping in Ireland | £13.00 | |
| Weatherhead | Boxes to bar hives | Unknown | SB |
| Wedmore | A Manual of Beekeeping | £16.95 | |
| Weightman | The Border Bees | | HB |
| Wenner | Anatomy of a Controversy | £36.00 | |
| White | Pollen, its Collection for the Microscope | £3.00 | |
| White | More Honey in the Kitchen | £7.75 | |
| White | Soap Recipes | £13.50 | |
| White | Super Formulas | £9.95 | |
| Whitehead | Honey Bees & their Management | | HB |
| Wildman | A Treatise on the Management of Bees | £5.00 | |
| Williams | Beekeeping Potential/Oilseed Rape | £0.50 | |
| Wilson | The Insect Societies | £19.25 | |
| Winston | Biology of the Honey Bee | £15.25 | |
| Yates | Beekeeping Study Notes | £12.75 | |
| Yates | Nudge Nudge Hint Hint | £6.75 | |
| Yates | Senior Study Notes | £8.25 | |
| Yates | Beekeeping Study Notes (Modules 1,2,3,4) | £28.00 | |
| Yates | Beekeeping Study Notes (Modules 5,6,7,8) | £28.00 | |
| Yates | Beekeeping Study Notes (Module 9) Microscopy Cert. | £9.00 | |
| Yates | Beekeeping Study Notes (Basic Exams) | £12.50 | |
| Yeo | Solitary Wasps | £9.70 | |
