SILENT SPRING

First UK edition, first printing. Original textured brown cloth with titles in red and silver to the spine, in dustwrapper. Top edge red. A very good or better copy, the binding firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with the stamp of The Harrison Zoological Museum, Kent, to the front free endpaper and a few small spots to the closed text block fore-edge, are otherwise clean and bright throughout. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper which is a little faded to the spine and has some spotting to the rear panel. Not price-clipped (25s on the front flap).

Rachel Carson's groundbreaking ecological science book describes the devastating effects of pesticides on the ecosystem and is credited by many for instigating the environmental movement that resulted in the banning of DDT in the USA.