Silent Spring (1963)

The true first is the Houghton Mifflin edition, Boston, 27 September 1962; the text had already appeared in three instalments in the New Yorker in June 1962. The first British edition is the Hamish Hamilton hardback, London, 1963, about a year after the American one. A review in Oryx (April 1963) lists it at 25s., but no source seen confirms the price printed on the jacket. Dealers sell first printings in the original dust wrapper, and the wrapper spine is prone to fading. The Penguin paperback of 1965, issued in association with Hamish Hamilton, is a later edition. Look on the reverse of the title leaf for any reprint notice, which means a later impression.