The Monkey Wrench Gang [50th Anniversary Edition]
by Abbey, Edward; Doug Peacock [Introduction]
New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006. Reprint. Paperback. New. 480 pp. Duodecimo [20.1 cm]. Yellow paper wraps with graphic on cover. From the publisher: "When Ex-Green Beret George Hayduke returns from war to find his beloved Southwestern desert threatened by industrial development, it’s up to him to take the noxious bull by the horns. Joining forces with... Read More
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Down the River
by Abbey, Edward
New York: Dutton, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. 242pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 white cloth with blue paper covered boards, and a gilt stamped title on the spine. The top fore-edge corners of the covers are gently bumped. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. The text block is nice and square.... Read More
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The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel
by Abbey, Edward
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. SIGNED. 485pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] in boards over cloth spine. Minor bruising at the spine ends. Very light soiling to the fore-edge of the text block. In a dust jacket, with rubbing to the panels, and a couple of 3" scratches and tiny open... Read More
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Accent Vol. XVII, No.1; A Quarterly of New Literature
by Abbey, Edward
Urbana, Illinois: Department of English University of Illinois, 1957. Paperback. Near fine. Essay titled Underground in Amerigo pp.21-30. Some shelf wear and small tear at head of spine. Library stamp on cover, else a fine copy.
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Cactus Country
by Abbey, Edward
New York: Time-Life Books; The American Wilderness Series, 1977. Second printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Ernst Haas. SIGNED. 184pp. Quarto [26 cm] 1/4 black cloth with glossy illustrated paper over boards. Very good. The front cover is just a little bit warped. There is a previous owner's short inscription on the front pastedown. In a dust jacket, with... Read More
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Beyond The Wall: Essays from the outside
by Abbey, Edward
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. SIGNED. 203 pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 mustard yellow cloth with bright orange paper over boards. The spine is slightly rolled back. In an attractive dust jacket with mild rubbing. Signed by Edward Abbey on the front free endpaper. A collection of essays selected personally... Read More
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Fire on the Mountain
by Abbey, Edward
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1963. First British Edition. Hardcover. 211pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Turquoise blue boards with title and author stamped in gilt on the backstrip. Very good. The spine is subtly rolled, and the edges of the text block are very lightly foxed. The rear free endsheet is partially adhered to the rear pastedown. With the dust jacket,... Read More
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Slickrock: The Canyon Country of Southeast Utah; Photographs by Philip Hyde
by Abbey, Edward; Philip Hyde
San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 143pp. Small folio [35.5 cm] Tan cloth with white stamped titles on front board and backstrip. Illustrated. Bibliography. Very good condition. The verso of the front free endsheet has a gift inscription and a previous owner's ink stamp. The dust jacket is in very good condition. The paper at the... Read More
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The Monkey Wrench Gang
by Abbey, Edward
New York: J.P. Lippincott, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/good +. SIGNED. 352 pp. Octavo [23 cm.] 1/4 red cloth over black boards with title stamped in silver on spine. Small silver stamped monkey wrench on front board. Map endsheets and pastedowns. Boards and textblock edges are mildly soiled. Toning to head of spine. Remainder mark to... Read More
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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
by Abbey, Edward; Illustrated by Peter Parnall
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Peter Parnall. 269pp. Octavo [22 cm] Brown cloth over boards, with title stamped in white and beige on spine. Spine rolled. In a dust jacket with light rubbing and chipping along the edges, as well as a couple of shallow closed tears to the edges. Overall, the jacket... Read More
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Das Kaktusland
by Abbey, Edward; Harvey B. Loomis (trans.)
Amsterdam: Time-Life Bucher, 1978. Hardcover. Ernst Haas. 184pp. Quarto [26 cm] in glossy pictorial boards over black cloth spine. Light rubbing to boards, some fraying to cloth along edges, upper corners lightly bumped; interior is clean and bright. Text in German. Scarce German translation of Cactus Country. Photography by Ernst Haas. A journey in book form through southern Arizona... Read More
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Slickrock: The Canyon Country of Southeast Utah; Photographs by Philip Hyde
by Abbey, Edward; Philip Hyde
San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 143pp. Small folio [35 cm] Tan cloth with white ink stamped titles on front board and backstrip. Illustrated. Bibliography. Fine. The dust jacket is in very good condition. There is a three inch close tear in the top edge, and a one inch closed tear in the bottom edge. There... Read More
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The Monkey Wrench Gang. Illustrated Edition
by Abbey, Edward. Illustrated by R. Crumb [Robert Crumb]
Salt Lake City, UT: Dream Garden Press, 2025. New Edition. Hardcover. New/new. Robert Crumb. 356pp. Octavo [23.5 cm]; charcoal cloth with silver stamped title on front board and backstrip. Illustrated dust jacket. Published by Dream Garden Press/Ken Sanders Rare Books! This edition of The Monkey Wrench Gang includes a dozen full-page illustrations and thirty chapter head illustrations... Read More
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Slickrock: Endangered Canyons of the Southwest
by Abbey, Edward; Photographs and commentary by Philip Hyde
New York: Sierra Club; Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. First Paperback Edition (no additional paperback printings listed). Paperback. Very Good. 143pp. Quarto [27 cm] Illustrated wrappers. Wrappers toned, and with freckled spots of discoloration. Faint ghost impressions of writing on front wrap. Brief gift inscription on title page. Beautifully illustrated with photographs of the wide open spaces of Utah's... Read More
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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
by Abbey, Edward
New York: A Touchstone Book Published by Simon & Schuster, 1990. Reprint. Paperback. NEW. Peter Parnall. 269pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Illustrated wrappers. Illustrated by Peter Parnall. The author's fourth book and his first work of nonfiction. This collection of meditations by then park ranger Abbey in what was Arches National Monument of the 1950s was quietly published in... Read More
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Desert Images: An American Landscape
by Abbey, Edward
New York: A Chanticleer Press Edition, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. David Muench. SIGNED. 238pp. Folio [43.5 cm] Tan cloth covered boards with a bold orange ink stamped title on the spine. In a matching tan and orange printed cloth covered slipcase. Very good. There is a small amount of soiling on the covers and spine. The title on the... Read More
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Fire on the Mountain
by Abbey, Edward
New York: The Dial Press, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 211pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 red cloth with yellow paper over boards. Minimal bumping to the spine ends, and along the bottom edge of the front cover. The endpapers are negligibly discolored. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed and mildly soiled, with intermittent small closed tears and... Read More
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The Monkey Wrench Gang
by Abbey, Edward
New York: J.P. Lippincott, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 352pp. 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. The boards are just a hair warped, the extremities are gently bumped and rubbed, and there is... Read More
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Black Sun
by Abbey, Edward
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971. First printing. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. 159pp. Octavo [21 cm] Black cloth with a bright yellow ink stamped title on the spine. In a dust jacket with subtle toning, and a light crease that runs from the head to the foot of the rear inside flap. The author's fourth novel. A fictional... Read More
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Edward Abbey: A Voice in the Wilderness (DVD)
by (Abbey, Edward); Eric Temple
Canyon Productions, 2006. First edition. One hour video documentary on the life and times of the late author, Edward Abbey. Rare video footage and over 120 images of Abbey, his friends and family. Includes interviews with: Terry Tempest Williams, Doug Peacock, Ken Sleight, Jack Loeffler, Dave Foreman, Ken Sanders and others. Also Abbey's widow, sister and brother are all... Read More
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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
by Abbey, Edward
New York: Ballantine Books. Later printing. Paperback. NEW. 337 pp. Duodecimo [17.5 cm]; pictorial wrappers. Mass market paperback. Edward Abbey lived for three seasons in the desert at Moab, Utah, and what he discovered about the land before him, the world around him, and the heart that beat within, is a fascinating, sometimes raucous, always personal account of... Read More
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Slickrock: The Canyon Country of Southeast Utah
by Abbey, Edward; Philip Hyde
San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 143pp. Small folio [35.5 cm] Tan cloth with white stamped titles on front board and backstrip. Illustrated. Bibliography. Near fine. There is a barely perceptible stain on the top edge of the front cover. The dust jacket is in very good condition, with mild soiling. Price-clipped.Extra charges apply on this... Read More
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Abbey's Road
by Abbey, Edward
New York: Plume Books, 1991. Later Printing. Paperback. NEW. 198pp. 20.5 cm. In red wrappers with a pictorial front cover. New book with no flaws. "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... Read More
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Mirage 1951. Annual Publication of the Associated Students of the University of New Mexico
by [Abbey, Edward] [Yearbook]
University of New Mexico Printing Plant. Hardcover. Very Good. 304pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Decorative silver embossed cloth over boards stamped in red. Light rubbing and fraying at the spine ends. Rear hinge a touch soft. Grassroots activist Edward Abbey is pictured on p. 126/27. Edward Abbey earned a B.A. (1951) and an M.A. (1956) at the University of... Read More
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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
by Abbey, Edward; Illustrated by Peter Parnall
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. Peter Parnall. 269pp. Octavo [22 cm] Brown cloth. In the dust jacket, with light rubbing and chipping along the edges and folds. The author's fourth book and his first work of nonfiction. This collection of meditations by then park ranger Abbey in what was Arches National Monument... Read More
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