(London), Vincent Stuart, 1964. Harrison's seminal work, which exposed factory farming in the U.K. the way Rachel Carson's Silent Spring exposed pesticide use in the U.S. With a two-page foreword by Carson that begins: "The modern world worships the gods of speed and quantity, and of the quick and easy profit, and out of this idolatry mysterious evils have arisen. Yet the evils go long unrecognised...until some public-spirited person, with patient scholarship and steadfast courage, presents facts that can no longer be ignored." Published the year of Carson's death from cancer, and predating by nearly half a century the similar alarms sounded by such books as Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma. An uncommon book in the first edition, especially in collectable condition, with most hardcover copies having gone to libraries. Minor foxing to the edges and endpapers; erratum slip tipped to the verso of the half title; near fine in a very good dust jacket with some dustiness and sunning to the rear white panel and a few small, closed edge tears. A prescient critique of industrial agriculture, a relatively new phenomenon at the time but a near-universal reality in modern agribusiness today, at least in Western and/or developed countries. [#033330] SOLD