Silent Spring.
1962. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962.
8vo, 368 pp. Original green cloth with gold stamping on spine and cover; original dust jacket. Near fine copy, in a very good dust-jacket, unclipped (priced $5.00) with light rubbing and edgewear. Bookplate of Alfred Knopf and occasional marginal marks and one annotation (presumably his) in pencil and pen.
§ First edition, first printing (stated on copyright page). Personal copy of publisher Alfred Knopf, with his bookplate on inside cover and occasional marks and notes throughout text. One note flagged with a stickie reads: "Why can't you name names?"
"An impassioned, carefully researched, and meticulously documented call to arms against the indiscriminate use of chemical insecticides and weedkillers. Its publication alerted the general public to the growing danger -- known already to ecologists and conservationists -- from the careless and, in many cases, egregious poisoning of the earth's soil, water, air, creatures, and plants" (Books of the Century). Item #125455
Price: $875.00