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Boston, Mass: Beacon Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1966. Paperback. Trade paperback in very good condition. Tightly bound, an unmarked text with some discoloration to the covers, cover edgewear. Previous owner's name on the front free end paper. ; 0.9 x 8.1 x 5.5 Inches; 168 pages .

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Boston: Beacon Press, 1966. Foreward by Sir Julian Huxley. 169pp, all clean. Cover has grey and cream design showing faces overlayed like fish scales. Red title, all askew. Back cover is cream and has reviews and about the author. Inside cover has previous owner's name. Ffep has previous price in pencil on upper right. Any picture found beside this listing may NOT actually be a picture of this book but a stock photo used by the listing site. 3 R's Used Books and Hannelore Headley Old & Fine Books, Inc. are committed to saving the trees one leaf at a time.. Soft Cover. Good+/No Jacket.

Boston: Beacon Press, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Inscribed by Appleman on the front free endpaper: "For Don & Mary Alice, fondly -- Phil." Uncommon signed, and uncommon in hardcover in general. A book about the specter of overpopulation that predates Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb by three years and seems likely to have influenced it, not least because of the similar title. The title is probably also an allusion to Silent Spring. With a foreword by Julian Huxley. From the jacket: "Until the fundamental problem--that of population control--is met, Dr. Appleman stresses, gifts and loans and programs to help underdeveloped areas increase food production and step up industrialization are only stopgaps." The book examines stances by both the Catholic church and Communists along the way.  Appleman is perhaps best known as a poet and Darwin scholar, and the entwining of the two; this is his first book. A near fine copy in blue paperboard and cloth spine with just a touch of… Read More