Title: Silent Spring

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company

Publication Date: 1962

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Edition: 1st Edition

First Printing. 368 printed pages. with Index. Illustrated with Drawings by Lois and Louis Darling.  155 x 220 mm. Original green cloth with gilt blocked titling. Contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper and half-title page. Provenance: Jack and Priscilla Rodgers, huntington Hill, Rochester, new York. Complete with original colour printed dustwrapper, un price-clipped, mylar covered (minor chipping to head and tail of spine; tiny loss, small crease and short closed tear on back cover). 

Loosely inserted nine page excerpt from an original copy of Rachel Carson's essay  in the Garden Club of America, January 8th, 1963, "A New Chapter in Silent Spring". Also seven contemporary newspaper clippngs of reviews of Silent Spring.

Carson ignited the controversy about widespread pesticide use - , warning of the dangers of pesticides for plants and animals- and has been hailed as a pioneer in the environmental movement. Her speech, "A New Chapter in Silent Spring" addressed the Garden Club of America in 1963, the year after Silent Spring was published and the year before she died from breast cancer. The club–largely comprised of activist women gardeners and was a receptive audience for Carson tobring her message directly to public audiences. Her message warned that citizens could not rely on many of the official sources of information on the dangers of pesticides, from the federal government to professional organisations. Her impact has helped shape the modern world.

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