Rachel Carson, Silent Spring. Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin. 1962. First printing.

Rachel Carson. Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Press Cambridge. Drawings by Lois and Louis Darling. Stated first printing. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good + in gorgeous DJ with 5.00 price intact on front DJ panel. 1st Edition. Houghton Mifflin Co., New York. 1962. 368 pages. Stated first printing. Gorgeous forest green boards with gilt titles on spine and front, minor edge wear to extremities of boards and a miniscule amount of chipping to bottom jacket and rubbing to top of DJ spine. “For as long as mean has dwelt on this planet, spring has been the season of rebirth, and the singing of birds. Now in some parts of America, spring is strangely silent.” The true first printing of the iconic treatise on environmental catastrophe by marine biologist and queer environmental icon Rachel Carson, whose intimate life is explored in Lida Maxwell’s new book “Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love.” Enclosed is a review from the April 24 1964 issue of Time Magazine, “ecology for many a spring.”