Sean, the book is now a lovely shade of billiards green, and since some of you guys probably do not have the new edition I add here what Pete hand wrote inside the front cover.
March 1996
Dear Friends,
For 25 years I've tried to find time to really revise this banjo manual. No luck. Perhaps others will. It's not so necessary now. There are many new instruction books and videao tapes available now ...................(this part is too long, mostly content changes Pete would have made but then he finishes of with this................
Well, as I started off saying in the front cover, I am sorry I've not had time to revise this book since 1962. But it's basic ideas I'll still stand by:
Have fun
Learn by participating with a wide range of folks.
Keep your banjo hanging handy so you can pick it up.
Stick with one thing till you learn it well - in your fingers, which will remember things your brain forgets.
Take it easy but take it, and don't let your studies interfere with your education."

Pete Seeger