Silent Spring.

the book that launched the modern environmental movement

First edition, first printing, and the nicest copy we have handled, in superb example of the notoriously fragile dust jacket.

Rachel Carson's landmark work, Silent Spring, is credited by many as the book that laid the foundations for the modern environmental movement. Carson's scientific argument, that the indiscriminate use of pesticides such as DDT had harmful consequences on both nature and humans, was couched in condemnation of the pesticide industry itself and highlighted widespread industrial malpractice. With its clarity of message and strong sales, it brought concern for the environment into public conversation and has since been named by Sir David Attenborough as the book that had most changed the scientific world, after Darwin's On the Origin of Species.

First edition, first printing; 8vo; title vignette, chapter illustrations, internally fresh; publisher's green cloth, spine and upper board lettered in gilt, yellow topstain, patterned endpapers, in the original pictorial dust jacket, very lightly rubbed and creased at the extremities; 355pp.