The House of Life; RACHEL CARSON AT WORK with Selections From Her Writings Published and Published
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 350 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. Presentation copy - signed by the author to Laurence Hughes, longtime William Morrow President and CEO. Paul Brooks worked closely with Rachel Carson in his role as editor-in-chief at Houghton Mifflin during the publication of The Edge of the Sea and then Silent Spring. Rachel Carson was a very private person who died in 1964. She left no formal statement about her life and work. Paul Brooks gives the reader an inside view of the whole dramatic story of the writing and publishing of Silent Spring, including the obstacles that the author had to surmount and the courage with which she completed the book and faced the storm that it aroused. Illustrated throughout with photos. Boards and interior clean and crisp. Dust wrapper rubbed with 1 cm. loss to head of spine. Green cloth covered boards. Near fine, in good dust wrapper. Item #4573
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