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#NS-3 "The Bird Watcher's Anthology" - by Roger Tory Peterson - Bonanza Books, 1957, First Edition with Dust-jacket - $150.00 Roger Tory Peterson, often called the Twentieth-Century Audubon, is the world's most famous bird watcher. He is also one of the world's foremost ornithologists - and a distinguished explorer, artist, writer, lecturer and photographer as well.... Now this remarkably gifted scientist has prepared a new volume for bird watchers, naturalists, and armchair adventurers; a veritable library of the great literature of bird watching - the fun of it, the meaning, science and adventure of it. Here are the fascinating and enormously readable writings of great naturalists, bird watchers, and explorers - Sutton, Burroughs, Huxley, Kieran, Peattie, Teale, Beebe, Hudson, Audubon, Darwin, and Thoreau, among a host of others, totaling 85 selections in all. In addition to the photographic endpapers, the text is liberally illustrated with 89 RTP drawings, plus a gorgeous full-color frontispiece of Atlantic Puffins! Measuring 7.25" x 10.25", it has 401 + xv pages. The book itself is in VeryGood condition, with light bumping and rubbing at the top and bottom of the spine, and a bit of fading at the top and bottom edges, undoubtedly from exposure to strong light where the dustjacket wasn't able to protect them. The dustjacket is in Good+ condition, with a half-dozen short, closed-tears ranging from 1/8" to 3/4", and an equal number of very small chips (1/8" or less) at the corners. The page edges are a bit darkened. Otherwise, both the book itself and the dustjacket are crisp, clean, bright and complete, with hinges that are fully intact and tight!