Silent Spring by Carson, First Edition (94 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Lois Darling; Louis Darling (illustrator). 1st Edition. softcover with a few margin marks; light shelf wear; A2S14.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Lois Darling; Louis Darling (illustrator). 1st. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A Crest Book / Fawcett World Library, New York. 1964. Softcover/Trade Wraps/ Mass Market Paperback. Stated First Crest Printing January 1964. t681 / 75˘. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; scant edge bumps; light rubbing to wraps. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. Clean internals. Tinted textblock edges. 304 pp 12mo. With the printing of this book on September 27, 1962 the birth of the modern environmental movement in the U.S began. Rachel Carson, a biologist and nature writer from Pennsylvania, authored the book to expose the hidden costs of widespread pesticide use, particularly focusing on their devastating effects on birds, insects, and the broader natural environment. Her focus was especially on the pesticide DDT and made the public aware that pesticides don't stay where they are put; they get into the soil, water-ways, wildlife and human beings. Decades after Silent Spring, we are still discovering just how far these chemicals can travel and how deeply they affect human health and wildlife. A clean very presentable that has probably never been read or opened.

1964 Crest / Fawcett Publications first paperback edition. Condition is Very Good Plus, sound binding, complete and unmarked inside pages, no creasing to wraps. Minimal wear except for a clipped upper left corner on the back cover (see photo), else would be Near Fine.

Condition: New. Exposes the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides. This book aims to creates public awareness of the environment. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: RNK; RNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 232. 2000. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . .

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. Stated First Mariner Books Edition (First Thus) With The Number Line Indicating A First Printing. Green Pictorial Wraps With White Lettering. Only A Hint Of Wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. 1st Edition. gift inscription to previous owner on ffep.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. 1st Edition. gift inscription to previous owner on ffep.

1st thus. new.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. First Crest printing, January 1964, stated; Crest Book number t681; cover price 75 cents; page edges tinted red. A number on the front endpaper, else unmarked; the spine is square and uncreased; age-toning to the pages; minor creasing and edgewear to the wraps; sleeve protected.

paperback. Condition: Good. Lois Darling; Louis Darling (illustrator). 1st.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair-torn. First Edition. Torn dust jacket. Pages in very good condition. GOOD - Moderate corner dings and/or curled corners GOOD - Spine and binding may show signs of creases, some wear and tear GOOD - Yellowing and/or discoloration of pages is minor LIKE NEW / VERY GOOD - Dust jacket (if applicable) is included for hard covers LIKE NEW / VERY GOOD - No creases or tears on spine and/or cover LIKE NEW / VERY GOOD - No missing or damaged pages LIKE NEW / VERY GOOD - No underlining or highlighting of text All items shipped Monday - Friday, fast shipping! Proceeds support the Sierra Vista Public Library.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book of the Month Club. Near Fine/No DJ. Hard cover 8vo in green cloth w/gold titles. Cloth scuffed, else Fine and unmarked. 368pp inc. Index; illustrated in drawings. The book that sparked the fight to ban the pesticide DDT. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Mass Market Paperback Edition. First Printing. Very Near Fine in black, gold and green glossy wrappers, all edges stained red. Slightly spotty to edges. 304pp. A milestone in the environmental movement. Q17746.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. 1st printing. Previous owner's inscription on flyleaf. Jacket in Fair condition. foxing on forest. No markings on text. Historic Oklahoma Bookstore on Route 66. Packages shipped daily, Mon-Friday.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. About the book: Hardcover in slipcase. Both book and case are in near fine condition. Additional photos available upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good, clean, tight condition - collector's "fine". First printing. Tan cloth in slipcase. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged with tracking.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Interior is bright and clean and all pages and illustrations are present with no markings. Binding is dark green with gold lettering on front cover and spine, solid and in very good condition. There are 2 dust jackets seemingly identical. One is price clipped and one is not, both have slight chips in various places but lettering and illustrations are fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition thus. Edited by Sandra Steingraber. Octavo. 546pp. Tan cloth. Small bump on bottom page edges, else a fine copy in fine dust jacket. The Library of America Series, Volume 307.

This is a clean, unmarked copy with a worn and chipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. The dust jacket is clipped and torn, with some marks and stains. Within there are tape matrks where the book has been previously covered. There is tanning and foxing througout. This has been an ex reading library copy so has been stickered and stamped.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Signed by Jameson on the title page. Uncommon signed. From the jacket: "Fifty years on, Connor Mark Jameson reflects on the growth of environmentalism sinceSilent Spring was published. His revealing and engaging tale plots milestone events in conservation, popular culture and political history in the British Isles and beyond, tracking a path through the half century since 'zero hour,' 1962." Jameson has written especially about birds and is the author of three other books. A very near fine book with just some toning to its pages; in a fine jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Darling, Lois & Louis (illustrator). 1st Edition. Clipped DJ is colorful, rubbed & lightly soiled from age & handling, now protected in mylar. Boards are well-bound, bit of crushing at spine ends; pages are bright & clean throughout. Stated first printing. Includes a newspaper photograph of Rachel Carson.

Condition: Very Good. 1962, stated first printing on dark green cloth. Binding is unblemished, text block is clean, boards straight, without highlights or markings. Mild rubbing/chipping to price clipped dust wrapper edges. Very clean, very nice example. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.

Condition: Very Good in Fair dust jacket. First edition, 1st printing. Dust jacket unclipped. Pre-title page has name inscribed. 368 pages, including index. Not ex-library or book club edition. Dust jacket covered in mylar sleeve. See photos. A landmark environmental science book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. FIRST EDITION. (1st printing with title page dated 1962 and statement of "First printing" on copyright page. In correct dust jacket priced at $5.00.). Near Fine in a Good only dust jacket, chipped along edges, traingular crease to front panel, but not faded and protected in mylar. A classic of the environmental movement.

1/4 Cloth; Paper Boards. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A beautiful copy of this high spot in environmental awareness. Would be fine but for two small closed tears about 1/8" to 1/4" on top of dust jacket. "Silent Spring appeared in 1962, a surprise bestseller that sold 500,000 copies in hardback and millions in paper. Although the book was primarily concerned with the misuse of pesticides, it was the first work to address the larger issues of environmental pollution" (The Book in America, 133). "An impassioned, carefully researched, and meticulously documented call to arms against the indiscriminate use of chemical pesticides and weed killers. Its publication alerted the general public to the growing danger-known already to ecologists and conservationists from the careless and, in many cases, egregious poisoning of the earth's soil, water, air, creatures and plants". (Books Of The Century). The most important legacy of Silent Spring. was a new public awareness that nature was vulnerable to human intervention, Rachel Carson had made a radical proposal; that, at times, technological progress is so fundamentally at odds with natural processes that it must be curtailed. Conservation had never raised much broad public interest, for few people really worried about the disappearance of wilderness. But the threats Carson had outlined-that contamination of the food chain, cancer, genetic damage, the deaths of species, were too frightening to ignore. For the first time, the need to regulate industry in order to protect the environment became widely accepted, and environmentalism was born. A classic of environmental literature, a long essay that appeared in The New Yorker and eventually resulted in the banning of the use of DDT.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Darling, Lois and Louis (illustrator). 1st Edition. First printing of Carson's landmark book on the environment. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering to the front panel and spine. The yellow topstain is still bright and unfaded but there are a few spots of staining. Discrete owner's name to the illustrated front free endpaper. The unfaded jacket is price-clipped and is fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Good. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1962; First edition, first printing. A very handsome copy. Original dust jacket (with $5.00) price intact; light chipping to edges and corners. Rear cover slightly age-toned. Forest green boards with gilt lettering in very nice shape. Yellow top stain has some minor scuffs. Green end pages. VG+/VG.

Tunnicliffe (illustrator). First edition, Boston 1962. Is an/the early classic of environmental thought, ever more relevant with climate change. One of the seminal texts of the environmental movement. Head of spine slightly bumped. Near fine in very good, chipped and slightly torn dustwrapper. Will be Dispatched from the UK within 48 hours of ordering.