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First edition. Review copy with slip laid in. Fine in an about fine (tiny closed tear at the base of the front flap and a tiny corner crease at the base of the rear flap) dust jacket. A bright, clean, and well preserved copy.

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!

Hardback, 8vo, very good, dust jacket not priced clipped, minor crease to top edge, otherwise very good, first edition, 1975 SIGNED by author on first free end paper, a handsome copy. Prescott, AZ.

SIGNED BY AUTHOR at bottom corner front map end page in the year of publication - "Ed Abbey Wabash '75" . Near Fine, light soiling to edges, in a Very Good Plus dust jacket, light soiling, small chips at bottom edge of spine, author's name printed in red at spine a bit dulled. A quite handsome copy of Abbey's classic radical environmentalist work. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall