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First Edition, first printing. Dust jacket art by Paul Bacon. His 9th book and 5th work of fiction which gave birth to the radical environmental group Earth First! . Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful cop

First Edition, first printing. Dust jacket art by Paul Bacon. His 9th book and 5th work of fiction which gave birth to the radical environmental group Earth First! . Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful cop

New York: J.P. Lippincott, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 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!