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Price: US$36.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Apparent first edition, copyright page notes: "Eleventh Printing C" directly above "copyright 1962". Green clothbound without a dustjacket. Exterior is clean and square, minor rub wear to cloth and spine. Interior is also clean and tightly bound. Book has frequent, neat underlining/notations to text, which do not detract from use of the book but negate the collectible value. The title page has a half-inch scribble mark from a ballpoint pen at the upper corner margin (apparently this was this launching point for marking up the entire book!). Despite prior textbook use, book is still very clean and presentable, and highly usable for reading/research.
Seller: river break books, fort benton, MT, U.S.A.
Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1962.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green cloth with dull gilt lettering. Light rubbing to all edges. Previous owner gift inscription to upper margin of half-title. Text is clean and bright, no marks. Unclipped DJ with $5.00 price is completely torn in half at rear panel, shows rubbing to all edges, small chips to head and heel of spine and several skinned spots to spine, corners chipped. Wonderfully illustrated throughout with drawings by Lois and Louis Darling. "For as long as man has dwelt on this planet, spring has been the season of rebirth, and the singing of birds. Now in some parts of America spring is strangely silent, for many of the birds are dead, incidental victims of our reckless attempt to control our environment by the use of chemicals that poison not only the insects against which they are directed, but they birds in the air, the fish in the rivers, the earth which supplies our food, and, inevitably (to what degree is still unknown), man himself." (from the jacket)
Seller: Gyre & Gimble, Holden, ME, U.S.A.
rachel carson. silent spring. houghton mifflin company, boston, 1962.
Price: US$339.00 + shipping
Description: first edition, 1962 upon publication, silent spring sparked fierce and instantaneous international debate. now considered a catalyst for the grassroots environmental movement in america, carson's work exposed the hazards of pesticides, leading eventually to the creation of the environmental protection agency. includes media clippings describing the controversy surrounding publication. boston: houghton mifflin company and cambridge: the riverside press. 6 x 8.5". 368 pages. hardcover. bound in cloth-covered boards. book condition: very good. jacket condition: chips to front and back covers. notable loss to upper right back cover. chips to spine. toning to inside flaps. unclipped ($5.00). good+.
Seller: leaves, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.