Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1955. Her third book, which was a National Book Award finalist in 1956. Signed by the author. Carson's second book, The Sea Around Us, had won the National Book Award in 1952 and had sold a million copies and been translated into 18 languages. At the time of this publication, Carson had already won the John Burroughs Medal, the Gold Medal of the New York Zoological Society, the Henry Bryant Gold Medal of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia, and a special citation from the Limited Editions Club as one of ten living American authors whose works were most likely to become classics. All of this was long before she published her last, and most famous, book, Silent Spring. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Carson died soon after the publication of Silent Spring in 1962 and her signed books have become somewhat uncommon over the years. [#032335] SOLD