NMLP P-028155 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04
A Field Guide to the Birds
Roger Tory Peterson · Houghton Mifflin · 1934
True first US edition, first issue, published 27 April 1934; only about 2,000 copies, which sold out within roughly ten days. Later issues drop the title-page date (copyright year on the verso only), 'clean' the swan and egret plumage, and the final issue lacks the plate guard sheets.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-028155 for "A Field Guide to the Birds" by Roger Tory Peterson (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-028155, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).