‘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
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