Silent Spring by RACHEL CARSON ISBN 13: 9780395075067

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.4000 8.7000 6.1000. First printing, stated- TRUE first with NO Book of the Month Club stamps to boards. However, jacket is NOT a first state, jacket is from a Book of the Month Club edition. Top edge yellow, as issued, minor staining to top of textblock, looks like coffee. Otherwise VG. Jacket has a few closed tears, minor shelf wear, now in mylar. Pages/boards clean, binding sturdy.

US: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. Houghton Mifflin Company 1962 First Edition SD Fine/Very Good DJ Dark green cloth with reflective gold lettering. Illustrated blue design end papers. Upper page edge dyed yellow are bright. Illustrated with drawings by Lois and Louis Darling, lithographed by Mahoney & Roese. xvi+368 pages with index. Bright glossy clipped dust jacket with mended tears protected in clear dust jacket cover. HEAVY ITEM 1.64 Pounds.. First Edition SD. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good DJ. No Exp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. First printing. With the ownership signature of Harrison B. Tordoff at the top of the half-title page. A nice association copy, as Tordoff was a prominent ornithologist and conservationist. He was the head of the Bell Museum of Natural History at the University of Minnesota. A finch expert, he was also dedicated to the conservation of the endangered Kirtland's warbler and, especially, peregrine falcons. He was responsible for the reintroduction of peregrines to the upper Mississippi River region via the Midwest Peregrine Restoration Project which he founded. He helped hatch more than 1,200 peregrine chicks. Peregrines were of course the unfortunate poster bird for species that declined due to eggshell thinning from DDT, the pernicious chemical that is the subject of Silent Spring. For a full biography of Tordoff, see the tribute from Tordoff's former student, the famous ornithologist Frank Gill.  Green cloth boards,… Read More