June 2021 Catalogue

12 S c i e n c e & M e d i c i n e • J u n e 2 0 2 1 “One Of The Greatest Nature Writers In American Letters” 10 CARSON, Rachel. Silent Spring. Boston, 1962. Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $750. Click for more info First edition of Rachel Carson’s pioneering work in environmental pollution, a lovely copy in the original dust jacket. “The first work to address the larger issues of environmental pollution” ( The Book in America , 133). “ Silent Spring became a runaway bestseller, with international reverberations… It is well crafted, fearless and succinct… Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American letters” (Mattheissen, Time ). Containing numerous in-text illustrations. Owner signature. Book fine; light edge-wear to bright near-fine dust jacket. “The most alarming of all man’s assaults upon the environment is the contamination of the air, earth, rivers, and sea.”