Product Description
First edition, second printing (October 1955).
Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge.
Hardcover with original dust jacket.
Illustrations by Bob Hines of the U.
S.
Fish and Wildlife Service.
The third and final volume of Rachel Carson's sea trilogy, completing the arc begun with Under the Sea-Wind (1941) and The Sea Around Us (1951).
Where The Sea Around Us looked outward to the open ocean, The Edge of the Sea goes to the margin - the rocky coasts of New England, the sandy Mid-Atlantic beaches, the coral shores of the South - finding in each a distinct world shaped by the negotiation between sea and land.
Carson's first collaboration with illustrator Bob Hines, who would later work with her on Silent Spring.
Portions originally appeared in The New Yorker.
Published seven years before Silent Spring, this is Carson at her most lyrical.
Condition: Boards and spine clean.
Pages tanned at top edges as typical for age; three pages with a single small foxing spot each confined to top margin; text block otherwise clean with no underlining or marginalia.
Dust jacket present, price-clipped.
DJ has edge wear and light fading; two small stains to bottom spine of jacket; panels intact and fully legible.
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