Silent Spring

by Rachel Carson

$750 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

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 former owner's gift inscription at half-title page. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with fading and chipping to spine, light rubbing and light edge wear. Carson's best-known work in which she describes the harmful effects of pesticides like DDT on

• Printing: first

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