The Book That Launched The Modern Environmental Movement

SILENT SPRING

By Rachel Carson

1962

First printing of the environmental classic that almost single-handedly led to the banning of DDT, and which the Boston Public Library included on their list of the 100 Most Influential Books of the 20th Century.

Very good plus in very good jacket.

Price: $600.00

SILENT SPRING

"Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?"

Attractive copy of the book that exploded the "Better Living Through Chemistry" myth of post-war America and launched an entirely new field of activism that would help to define the second half of the century. Carson's book not only exposed the dangers of DDT, it also helped lead to the founding of the Environmental Protection Agency. A well-kept example of this important and influential title.

The Object

First edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original green cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover, with patterned endpapers. In original unclipped ($5.00) jacket. 368 pages. Touches of shelfwear, faint soil to book. Jacket lightly edgeworn with some rubbing and a few stray pen marks at edges, unobtrusive. Overall, bright and sound..

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