CARSON Rachel — Silent Spring. Introduction by Lord Shackleton. Preface by Sir Julian Huxley. [First UK Edition.] AN ECOLOGICAL CLASSIC: FIRST UK EDITION IN FULL THEMED MOROCCO

Hamish Hamilton, [1963]. 8vo., First Edition thus; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with flower motif, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, dustwrapper panels and original backstrip mounted on new and separate leaves at front, custom-made slip-case with patterned lining, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Elegant copy of the UK edition of this seminal work, issued a year after the US edition. SCARCE THUS.