A Field Guide to the Birds / Giving Field Marks of All Species Found in Eastern North America (SIGNED)

Peterson, Roger Tory

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1934

Language: English

Condition: Very Good Hardcover

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Dark green pebbled cloth with titles and flying duck stamped in gilt to front board. Grade it "very good" with some modest rub along both sides of spine. Signed "Roger T. Peterson" diagonally across the author's printed name to title page in his elegant distinctive hand, name only. (This is a "live" fountain-pen signature -- the ink can be seen to have bled through to the verso.) Page 27 and adjoining B&W plate ("Diving ducks") were once torn, previous owner has repaired them competently, the plate with what appears to be "Scotch Magic" tape to blank verso, the text page without tape, probably with a suitably spare application of archival adhesive. Later state of the first edition -- 1934 to copyright page but no date to title page. NO tissue guards to the four color plates; NO dust jacket. (Captions for the color plates appear on facing unnumbered pages.) Spelling of "Bog-pumper" has been corrected in the index. 167 pp. including Index. Reduced from $2,500.

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Title

A Field Guide to the Birds / Giving Field Marks of All Species Found in Eastern North America (SIGNED)

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York

Publication Date

1934

Language

English

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

No Jacket

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Eclectic vintage and out-of-print collectable condition books and records in every genre. Cat's Curiosities closed our brick-and-mortar location in Las Vegas in late 2016, and is now an Internet-only seller, specializing in Nevada & The West; Free-market & Austrian Economics; Vintage vinyl LP records (many signed); Century-old juvenile series books; Health & Medicine; Cookbooks (many signed) & Alcoholiana; Travel, Exploration, & Geology.

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