A Field Guide to the Birds: Giving Field Marks of All Species Found in Eastern North America

by Roger Tory Peterson

$4,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934. First edition, first issue with 1934 listed on the title page and bob-pumper listed in the index. Variant with l in loose missing on p. 67. xxi, iii , 167 pp. with 36 plates. Bound in publisher's pebbled cloth stamped in silver, lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with slight rubbing along spine, bit of foxing along top edge, bit of a crease to spine. An influential guide that

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