A Field Guide to the Birds

by Roger Tory Peterson

$2,600 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition · Signed

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934. First edition, fourth issue. Signed by Roger Tory Peterson and generically inscribed on the dedication page. Bound in publisher's green pebbled cloth stamped in silver; lacking the scarce dust jacket. Very Good with light general wear to binding. Foxing to endsheets. Pages toned and lightly marked in pen and pencil in margins. Small stains to title page. An influential guide that

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