SIGNED COPY - Viking Press, New York 1965. Hardcover in pictorial dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing. 256 pages filled with black and white and color images throughout. The photographer's first book. Tall quarto, original ivory cloth. The End of the Game, is thoughtful as well. Long taken as a seminal book on wildlife conservation, it is actually an epic visual poem on the subject of loss. Cited in Roth, 170; The Open Book, 208. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Peter Beard in red wax pencil: "Best wishes / and regards / Peter (Beard) / ICP" on the upper left corner of the fep. verso. Signed by Beard at an appearance celebrating the ICP's 1977 publication of the second edition of End of the Game. BOOK CONDITION: Near Fine; a solid, tight, clean copy in a Near Fine dust jacket showing light wear including a few small tears and slight loss to edges and corners (looks great in a new, clear brodart protector). Overall a solid, clean and highly collectible copy of the true first edition, especially so when SIGNED.

Near fine