A Field Guide to the Birds
$12,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books
First edition · Signed
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934. First edition, first issue with 1934 listed on the title page and bob-pumper listed in the index. Signed twice by Roger Tory Peterson--once in red on the title page, and again in black on the dedication page with an inscription reading, with best wishes for good birding! signed Roger Tory Peterson. Bound in publisher's pebbled boards stamped in silver, lacking the dust jacket.
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