Hardcover
1962 · Boston
by Carson, Rachel
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962. Stated Second Printing. Hardcover. Green cloth covered boards. Near fine, in good dust wrapper. 368 pages. Primarily focused on pesticides' effects on the ecosystems, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, helped bring a nationwide ban on DDT and other pesticides while sparking the movement that ultimately led to the creation of the US Environmental Protections Agency (EPA). Laid in: Memo paper from Laurence Hughes - longtime William Morrow President and CEO. In original dust wrapper (with $5.00) price intact, with yellow topstain. Crisp, clean copy. Dust wrapper rubbed and chipped at spine, with 1 cm. loss. In protective mylar cover.
(Inventory #: 4572)