The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson, 16th Printing Hardcover DJ, 1952

The Sea Around Us is a prize-winning and best-selling book by the American marine biologist Rachel Carson, first published as a whole by Oxford University Press in 1951. It reveals the science and poetry of the sea while ranging from its primeval beginnings to the latest scientific probings

This hardcover first edition, Sixteenth Printing, from 1952 has dust jacket that has significant tears.