Desert Images: An American Landscape

New York: Harcourt Brace and Jovanovich, 1979. First Edition. 238pp. Folio [43 cm] Tan cloth with the title stamped in orange on the backstrip. Housed in a matching slipcase with the title in orange on the front panel. Book and slipcase are both near fine. Signed by Abbey on the title page. Illustrated work that documents the deserts of the American southwest with images by David Muench and commentary, descriptions, and recollections by Edward Abbey. Edward Abbey (1927-1989) was a celebrated author, essayist, conservationist, noted pain-in-the-ass, and in many ways the father (or at the very least, uncle) of the modern environmental movements.