The Hamish Hamilton edition followed a year after the American outing of Silent Spring and coincided with two devastating agricultural accidents in the UK (the 'Smarden incident' in Kent and a second toxic waste spill in Merthyr Tydfil), leading Carson's book to play a crucial role in influencing public opinion and swelling grassroots environmental movements on both sides of the Atlantic. Still, a very good copy of the British first edition of Carson's environmental mistresspiece. In Patricia Davey's typographical red, mustard, white and black dust jacket: spine significantly sunned (as usual), rubbed, light shelf-soiling, a little creasing and edgewear. Slight lean to spine, top corner of bottom board bruised, faint spotting to edges. Original tawny cloth, red spine panel lettered in silver.
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