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Salt Lake City, UT University of Utah Press 2005 Paperback First edition As NEW 120 pp. With 10 color pictures and one photograph. ... more information

San Francisco, CA Sierra Club 1971 Hardcover First edition 143pp. Small folio. Tan cloth with white stamped titles on front board and backstrip. Illustrated. Bibliography. Fine/Fine. DOUBLE SIGNED. Signed by Abbey on the Title page. Signed by Hyde on the Dedication page. Beautifully illustrated with photographs of the wide open spaces of Utah's slickrock country.... more information

New York Simon and Schuster 1971 Hardcover First edition 159pp. Octavo [21 cm.] Black cloth. Near fine/Near fine. Short gift inscription on the front free endsheet. Jacket is price clipped. Inscribed by the author on the title page. The first and only edition in hardcover of the author's fourth novel. Extremely difficult to find signed. A fictional account of the author's time spent as a fire lookout on the North rim of the Grand Canyon. Abbey blends both the dying of his wife in a New Je... more information

Boston, MA Little, Brown & Company 1989 Paperback Later Printing As NEW The sequel to the ground breaking novel "The Monkey Wrench Gang". 308 pages. ... more information

New York Henry Holt 1984 Paperback Later printing As NEW "In this wise and lyrical book about landscapes of the desert and the mind, the author of "Desert Solitaire," "Down the River," and "The Monkey Wrench Gang," guides us beyond the wall of the city and asphalt belting of superhighways to special pockets of wilderness that stretch from the interior of Alaska to the dry lands of Mexico." New book with no flaws. ... more information

New York Dial Press 1962 Hardcover First Edition 211pp. Octavo [21 cm.] 1/2 red cloth over yellow boards. Near fine/Very good. Light rubbing to corners of jacket with a one inch closed tear to foot of front panel (with subtle corresponding creasing). Signed by the author on the front free endsheet in black ink. Abbey's third published novel. The story follows familiar Abbey themes of government intrusion in the West, and the rugged individuals who confront the bureaucratic machine.... more information

New York Dial Press 1962 Hardcover First Edition 211 pp. Octavo [21 cm.] 1/2 red cloth over yellow boards. Near fine/Very good. Light rubbing to extremities of jacket with a two short closed tears to foot of rear panel (with subtle corresponding creasing). Gentle fading and rubbing to jacket's spine. Warmly INSCRIBED by the author on the front free endsheet in black ink. Inscription reads "to ___ ___ - from his friend - Edward Abbey - Santa Fe - 11/26/62". Abbey's third publishe... more information

Salt Lake City / Santa Barbara Dream Garden Press / Santa Teresa Press 1993 Hardcover Limited Edition, #443/500 280pp. Octavo. Red cloth with title printed on backstrip. Fine/Fine  Signed by Kirk Douglas on the limitation page. Introduction by Kirk Douglas. With a portfolio of black and white photographs from "Lonely Are the Brave" bound at the back.Limited edition reprint of second published work from the literary icon. The story of Jack Burns and his fight with modern societ... more information

New York Henry Holt and Company 1988 Hardcover First Edition 225 pp. Octavo [21.5 cm.]. 1/2 black cloth over red boards. Fine/Near fine. Subtle fading to spine of jacket. SIGNED by the author on the front free endsheet in black ink. A collection of essays by the celebrated author.... more information

New York Henry Holt and Company - Owl Books 1998 Paperback Later Printing As NEW Wraps in deep blue and brown pictorial spine and covers. This "novel, the "fat masterpiece," as Ed labeled it, was his most important piece of writing: it reveals the complete Ed Abbey, from the green grass of his memory as a child in Appalachia to his approaching death in Tucson at age sixty-two. [Abbey] . . . manages to transcend his own notions of himself." New book with no flaws. ... more information

New York McGraw-Hill Book Company 1968 Hardcover First edition 269pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Brown cloth. Illustrated. Fine/Near fine. Subtle rubbing to corners of jacket. Small bookstore sticker at head of front flap. Blind ownership embossment in lower right corner of title page. Signed holographic letter from Abbey laid in. Eight lines of text in blue ink and signed Ed A. Mailing envelope also present. The author's fourth book and his first work of nonfiction. This collection of meditations by t... more information

Salt Lake City / Santa Barbara Dream Garden Press / Santa Teresa Press 1993 Hardcover Limited Edition, #88/500 Fine SIGNED. 280 pp. Octavo. Orange cloth with title printed on backstrip. Fine/Fine . The late author's beloved second novel, made into the splendid film, "Lonely Are The Brave" starring Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau, George Kennedy, Carroll O'Connor & others. Screenplay by Dalton Trumbo.  SIGNED by Kirk Douglas on the limitation page. Introduction... more information

Salt Lake City / Santa Barbara Dream Garden Press / Santa Teresa Press 1993 Hardcover Limited Edition, #139/500 Fine SIGNED. 280 pp. Octavo. Orange cloth with title printed on backstrip. Fine/Fine . The late author's beloved second novel, made into the splendid film, "Lonely Are The Brave" starring Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau, George Kennedy, Carroll O'Connor & others. Screenplay by Dalton Trumbo.  SIGNED by Kirk Douglas on the limitation page. Introductio... more information

New York Plume / Penguin Book Group 1991 Paperback Later Printing As NEW Wraps in brown spine and rear cover/colorful illustrated front cover. "Down the River is a collection of essays both timeless and timely. It is an exploration of the abiding beauty of some of the last great stretches of American wilderness on voyages down rivers where the body and mind float free." New book with no flaws. 242 pages. ... more information

New York J.P. Lippincott 1975 Hardcover First Edition 352 pp. Octavo [23 cm.] 1/2 red cloth over black boards with title silver stamped on backstrip and a small silver stamped monkey wrench on front board. Map endsheets and pastedowns. Near fine/Near fine. Faint subtle discoloring to extremities of jacket. The late great Edward Abbey published twenty one books during his lifetime (two posthumously) Both The Monkey Wrench Gang and Desert Solitaire have gone on to become what the author always dre... more information

New York J.P. Lippincott 1975 Hardcover First Edition 352 pp. Octavo [23 cm.] 1/2 red cloth over black boards with title silver stamped on backstrip and a small silver stamped monkey wrench on front board. Map endsheets and pastedowns. Near fine/Near fine. Faint discoloring to extremities of jacket and rear panel. The late great Edward Abbey published twenty one books during his lifetime (two posthumously) Both The Monkey Wrench Gang and Desert Solitaire have gone on to become what the author al... more information

New York Plume Books 1991 Paperback Later Printing As NEW 198pp. 20.5 cm. in red wrappers with a pictorial front cover. "You are about to visit some of the most exciting places on earth. Not the sort of excitement that makes morning headlines or the nightly news. Instead it is the excitement that comes from experiencing the natural world as it always has been and should be, and seeing human beings living in tune with its rhythms." New book with no flaws. ... more information

New York Dial Press 1962 Hardcover First Edition 211 pp. Octavo [21 cm.] 1/2 red cloth over yellow boards. Very good/Very good. Bookplate on front pastedown. Obituary glued to the front free endsheet. Gentle nicking to corners of jacket. Scrape at foot of jacket's spine. Abbey's third published novel. The story follows familiar Abbey themes of government intrusion in the west, and the rugged individuals who confront the bureaucratic machine.... more information

New York Henry Holt and Company 1988 Hardcover First Edition 225 pp. Octavo [21.5 cm.]. 1/2 black cloth over red boards. Fine/Fine ... more information

New York Simon and Schuster 1971 Hardcover First edition 159pp. Octavo [21 cm.] Black cloth. Near fine in like jacket. The first and only edition in hardcover of the author's fourth novel. A fictional account of the author's time spent as a fire lookout on the north rim of the grand canyon. Abbey blends both the dying of his wife in a New Jersey hospital, and one Carol Turner, who disappeared into Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument into this bittersweet love story. Abbey himself procla... more information