The Edge of the Sea

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1955. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Blue-green cloth stamped in black, in pictorial dust jacket; patterned endpapers; [xii],276pp; in-text illustrations by Bob Hines. Spine toned, else Near Fine. Jacket unclipped ($3.95), lightly rubbed and toned and edges, spine lightly toned, one short tear to rear upper edge, mild foxing to verso: overall, around Very Good.

First edition of Carson's bestselling work on coastal ecosystems, the third in her trilogy on the sea. [62876].