A Field Guide to the Birds

by Roger Tory Peterson

$3,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934. First edition, fourth issue. Signed by Roger Tory Peterson and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's green pebbled cloth stamped in silver; lacking the scarce dust jacket. Very Good with a light lean to the binding, light wear at the extremities and light fraying at the top of the spine and pages toned. An influential guide that transformed the

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