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‘Silent Spring: Part 1’ in Animals Magazine, vol. 1: no. 4.

Book Description

27.5 x 21cm, pp. [32] + numerous b/w and colour illustrations; Carson’s extract: pp. 10-13. Illustrated wrappers, stapled. Light edgewear and creasing. Light staining to back wrapper and inner margins, else, clean. A very good copy of an early serialisation of Carson’s explosive exposé of the American pesticide industry.

Dealer Notes

Carson’s Silent Spring was published in the UK by Hamish Hamilton the following month, on 14th February 1963. Edited by Armond Denis, Animals magazine eventually became BBC Wildlife. [ref: 1388]

Author [CARSON, Rachel]

Date 29 January 1963

Binding Magaizine

Publisher Bristol: Purnell & Sons Ltd

Condition Very Good

Price: £12.00

Offered by Quair Books

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