Silent Spring

by Rachel Carson

$800 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. First edition, first printing. x, vi , 368 pp. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth lettered in gilt; yellow topstain. Near Fine with light edge wear. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with wear at spine ends and corners with 1 tear to rear joint; light creasing to flaps. Carson's best-known work in which she describes the harmful effects of pesticides like DDT on the environment

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