Silent Spring :: Rachel Carson soon to be presented for sale on the really rather good BookLovers of Bath web site!
London: Readers Union, 1964, Hardback in dust wrapper.
Includes: Top edge dyed Green; List of sources;
From the cover: For as long as man has dwelt on this planet, spring has been the season of rebirth, and the singing of birds. Now in some parts of America, and throughout the world, spring is strangely silent, for many of the birds are dead incidental victims of our reckless attempt to control our environment by the use of chemicals that poison not only the insects against which they are directed but the birds in the air, the fish in the rivers, the earth which supplies our food, and, inevitably (to what degree is still unknown), man himself. …
Introduction by: Julian Huxley
Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little wear to the edges of the dust wrapper.
Green boards with Silver titling to the Spine. (xxii) 304 pages. Index. 8¼” x 5¼”.
Of course, if you don’t like this one, may I draw your attention to more books in my Ecology catalogue?
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