Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

First Edition, Stated First Printing, Houghton Mifflin, 1962, green cloth, gilt lettering, yellow top stain, pp. [xvi], 368

VG+ book with a bit of foxing to head edge, binding square and tight, in a VG+ jacket, minor rubbing, some small chips and tears to spine ends, light soil

The book that sparked the modern environmental movement. As a marine biologist, Carson wrote about the devastating effects of people on nature by documenting the effect of modern pesticides on the natural world.