Black Sun

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. 159pp. Octavo [21 cm] Black cloth with a bright yellow ink stamped title on the spine. The pages are a trifle age-toned. In a dust jacket with light toning, more so to the spine. 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.