Silent Spring

by Rachel Carson, Alfred Eisenstaedt

$15,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition · Signed

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. First edition, first printing of Rachel Carson's extremely influential work, which is credited with creating a worldwide awareness of the dangers of man-made environmental pollution. An important and fantastic association copy, signed and inscribed by Carson on the half title page dated one week before publication, For Alfred Eisenstaedt, a fellow naturalist, with the wish that your

• Printing: first

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