Cactus Country

New York: Time-Life, 1973. First Edition. 184pp. Quarto [26 cm] 1/4 black cloth over pictorial boards. Very good/Very good. Signed by Abbey on the title page. Profusely illustrated work on the Sonoran Desert, a volume in the Time-Life series 'American Wilderness.' 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.