Edge of the Sea, The.
Carson, Rachel. The Edge of the Sea. With illustrations by Bob Hines. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955.
8vo.; ownership stamp on half-title; green cloth, stamped in black; dust-jacket; lower panel faintly foxed.
First edition. Carson’s third book, divided into sections on The Rocky Shore, The Rim of Sand, and The Coral Coast, depicts the American Atlantic coastline as demonstrating life patterns “almost with the clarity of a well-conceived scientific experiment.”
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