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Black Sun: A novel; Edward Abbey Capra Press 0884961672 / 9780884961673 PAPERBACK
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0884961672 1981 Capra Press edition. ~Very Good. No DJ, as issued. Trade Paperback. Light shelf wear to covers/corners; satisfaction guaranteed. Black Sun is a 1971 novel by Edward Abbey about a rugged fire lookout who falls in love with an American girl half his age and then becomes wrongly blamed when she mysteriously disappears in the National Park where he works. The term "black sun" was used often in Abbey's work, according to The New West of Edward Abbey by Ann Ronald (page 177). He used it first in his second book, Fire on the Mountain to describe a sketch Billy makes after they discover someone has shot Billy's favorite horse, Rascal. He also uses it twice in his non-fiction book, The Journey Home and once in Abbey's Road.
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12.00 USD
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Good News; Edward Abbey Dutton Adult 0525034676 / 9780525034674 PAPERBACK
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0525034676 ~Very Good. No DJ, as issued. Trade Paperback. Light shelf wear to covers/corners; satisfaction guaranteed. Previous owner's signature on 1/2 title page. 1st printing with full number line, published in 1980 by E. P. Dutton. Edward Paul Abbey (January 29, 1927 ? March 14, 1989) was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, criticism of public land policies, and anarchist political views. His best-known works include the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, which has been cited as an inspiration by radical environmental groups, and the non-fiction work Desert Solitaire. Writer Larry McMurtry referred to Abbey as the "Thoreau of the American West".
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12.00 USD
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Monkey Wrench Gang; Edward Abbey Avon 038000741X / 9780380007417 MASS MARKET PAPERBACK
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038000741X 1st Printing, Published by Avon in 1976. $1.95 cover price. ~Good. No DJ, as issued. Covers scuffed, edge of pages discolored a bit. Mass-market Paperback. Light to moderate shelf wear to covers/corners; satisfaction guaranteed. The Monkey Wrench Gang is a novel written by American author Edward Abbey (1927?1989), published in 1975. Easily Abbey's most famous fiction work, the novel concerns the use of sabotage to protest environmentally damaging activities in the American Southwest, and was so influential that the term "monkeywrench" has come to mean, besides sabotage and damage to machines, any sabotage, activism, law-making, or law-breaking to preserve wilderness, wild spaces and ecosystems. In 1985, Dream Garden Press released a special 10th Anniversary edition of the book featuring illustrations by R. Crumb, plus a chapter titled "Seldom Seen at Home" that had been deleted from the original edition.
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14.00 USD
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The Monkey Wrench Gang; Edward Abbey Dream Garden Pr 1985 094268818X / 9780942688184 Hardcover
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094268818X New in new dust jacket. Wrapped in plastic! Brand New! Support Radical Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 356 p. Audience: General/trade. Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey Salt Lake City: Dream Garden Press, 2008. 5th printing, 356 pages. ISBN: 0-942688-18-X. A dozen full page illustrations and 30 chapter head illustrations by legendary sixties underground comix illustration and American icon, R. Crumb. Colorful R. Crumb dust jacket as well. Plus full page photograph of Edward Abbey and R. Crumb in Arches National Park. late great Edward Abbey published twenty-one books during his lifetime (two posthumously). Both Monkey Wrench Gang and Desert Solitaire have gone on to become what the author always dreaded "classics" and have now each sold more than one million copies each. With 12 full page illustrations and over 30 chapter head illustrations by R. Crumb. Trade hardbound edition, case bound and sewn, with full color dust jacket by R. Crumb.
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26.00 USD
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