Good News
- SIGNED Hardcover
- New York: E.P. Dutton, 1980
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. SIGNED. 242pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 black cloth with tan paper covered boards. The boards are subtly faded at the edges. In a dust jacket with light toning, and a minor chip to the bottom edge of the rear panel. Signed by Edward Abbey on the front free endpaper. In "Good News" the West is wild again. American civilization as the twentieth century knew it has crumbled. In the great Southwest a new breed of settlers are creating a new way of life in the wilderness - a pastoral economy - with skills and savvy resurrected from the pre-industrial past.