SILENT SPRING
Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. Lois and Louise Darling. STATED FIRST PRINTING. Hardcover. Octavo (8 5/8 in. x 6 1/8 in. Forest green cloth over boards with titles (top board and spine) in gilt. Tiny bit of shelf-rubbing wear to extremities. Publisher's yellow topstain, with light discoloration ( 1 1/2 in. x 1/2 in.) Decorated endpapers (brown and white vertical wavy lines on blue-green background), binding tight. Stated first printing. Interior clean and bright. In dust jacket with publisher's price of $5.00 on inside flap. Jacket shows moderate rubbing and several closed tears with wear at folds and along top edge, and chipping to spine caps, particularly at bottom with a rub at very bottom of dustjacket spine. Jacket is in a mylar protector. 368 pages, index, text illustrations. Book, externally and internally, particularly clean and bright. Very Good Plus in Good Plus Dustjacket. Item #100005
This is the "Ur text" representing the coming to mid-century western consciousness, awareness of the dire perils of pesticides -- "...a courageous revelation of the forces that modern man has brought into being in his ruthless war on life, an eloquent protest in behalf of the unity of all nature, a protest in behalf of life." (rear flap).
Price: $800.00