Description
Signed first edition of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, with laid-in review card.
Octavo, x, [6], 368pp. Green cloth, gilt title on spine and cover. Yellow top-stain, patterned endpapers. Stated “First Printing” on copyright page. Includes a laid-in “Review Copy” card, from Houghton Mifflin Company. Solid text block, faint dust along top edge of text block, wear from handling to the spine, a near fine example. In the publisher’s first state dust jacket, $5.00 retail price on front flap, wear to heel of the spine, a bright example.
Signed on the half-title by Rachel Carson.
