first edition Hard Cover
1934 · Boston and New York
by Peterson, Roger Tory
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition, third state (no date on title page, grey marks on swan necks corrected on plate between pages 18 and 19, retains tissue guards). No jacket. Edge wear, ink name. 1934 Hard Cover. xxi, 167 pp. Color plates and black-and-white illustrations throughout. A field guide to the birds of Eastern North America, which led to the publication of Peterson's now-famous series of field guides for various flora and fauna. "Roger Tory Peterson, one of the world's greatest naturalists, received every major award for ornithology, natural science, and conservation, (truncated)