Description
First edition, first printing of The Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson.
Octavo, 276pp. Green cloth, title in black on spine. Decorative endpapers. Stated “first printing September 1955” on copyright page. In publishers dust jacket, $3.95 on front flap, shallow chipping along top edge, light wear to rear panel, bright illustrations. An attractive copy.
This was the third book by influential naturalist Rachel Carson. This book would make up part of a trilogy, which she completed in the early 1950s and includes “The Sea Around Us” and “Silent Spring.”
