The Monkey Wrench Gang (A first edition in a custom made slipcase)
Abbey, Edward
From Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since April 8, 2003
Quantity: 1From Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
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Quantity: 1About this Item
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. With only very minor bruising at the spine ends. Text block square and tight. In the dust jacket, with the top edge trimmed a bit low, and with light creasing to the top edge of the rear panel. Housed in a unique custom made slipcase featuring the wrench design. The late great Edward Abbey published twenty one books during his lifetime (two posthumously). Both The Monkey Wrench Gang and Desert Solitaire have gone on to become what the author always dreaded: "classics." They have now each sold more than one million copies each. The controversial novel that gave birth to radical environmental group Earth First!. Seller Inventory # 65995
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Monkey Wrench Gang (A first edition in a...
Publisher: J.P. Lippincott, New York
Publication Date: 1975
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition.
About this title
Edward Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang a "comic extravaganza," which it is, although one with a clear, serious message: to protect the American wilderness from the forces of commercial enterprise. The story centers on George Hayduke, an ex-Green Beret and Vietnam vet, who returns to the Southwestern desert after the war to find his beloved canyons and rivers threatened by industrial development. On a whitewater rafting trip down the Colorado River, Hayduke joins forces with three others who share his indignation and want to do something about it: feminist saboteur and Bronx exile Bonnie Abzug, wilderness guide and outcast Mormon Seldom Seen Smith, and libertarian billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D. Together they venture off to become eco-raiders, waging war on the strip miners, clear-cutters, and the highway, dam, and bridge builders who are turning their natural habitat into a wasteland. The misadventures of this motley group make for an uproarious blend of chaos, conflict, and comedy.
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