diTERLIZZI, Tony and BLACK, Holly. The Field Guide. The Spiderwick Chronicles Book One of Five. NY: Simon and Schuster [2003]. 12mo, xii 114pp. Color pictorial boards. Black endpapers; color plate frontispiece and b&w illustrations throughout. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. Signed by the authors, Tony diTerlizzi and Holly Black!

First edition. The first book in The Spiderwick Chronicles. After finding a mysterious handmade field guide in the attic of the ramshackle old mansion they’ve just moved into, Jared; his twin brother, Simon; and their older sister, Mallory, discover that there’s a magical and maybe dangerous world existing parallel to their own—the world of faerie.