[Rarebooks] FS: Rachel Carson's THE SEA AROUND US Illustrated & SIGNED by Alfred Eisenstaedt

[Charles Agvent]

CARSON, Rachel. THE SEA AROUND US. New York: Limited Editions Club, 
1980. Revised Edition. Large octavo (6-3/4" x 9-3/8") bound in full blue 
buckram with an overall design stamped in blind and the spine titling in 
gold; 284 pages. Introduction by Maitland Edey. One of 2000 numbered 
copies, this copy out of series and not numbered, illustrated with 3 
two-page color photograph spreads, including the endpapers, and a 
beautiful frontispiece portrait of Carson in her natural habitat by 
Alfred Eisenstaedt. SIGNED by the photographer on the colophon page. 
Monthly Letter laid in. Fine in glassine and a Near Fine slipcase 
without the printed label on the backstrip and with no evidence that it 
was ever present. (#005446)        $100.00

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