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EDWARD ABBEY BOOKS
From our personal collection...most were signed during Abbey's book tour in Phoenix for the release of Fool's Progress.
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CACTUS COUNTRY.
The American Wilderness Series, Time-Life Books, New York, 1973, square 8vo., glossy pictorial boards, black cloth backstrip, 184pp., illus., biblio., index.
Richly illustrated with color photographs and drawings with chapters on The Real Desert; A Nature Walk to a Foothills Canyon; The Mountains of Superstition; The Anatomy of a Colossus; Winters in Organ Pipe; The Lavish, Frugal Cacti; The Sacred Peak; Dreams of Desert Treasure; Wild Palms and Gold Mines; The Water Misers; Down to the Sea of Cortes; The Ancient Dust; and Rock, Sand and Solitude.
SIGNED "Edward Abbey 11/75".
BACK ROADS OF ARIZONA by Earl Thollander. Introductory Commentaries by EDWARD ABBEY.
Northland Press, Arizona, 1978, first edition, 4to., paperback, 168pp., illus.
A look at the lesser visited sites of Arizona as seen through the eyes of author/illustrator Thollander. Tons of sketches plus hand drawn maps of various locales. A charming look at Arizona not found in the average travel catalogues.
SIGNED by Edward Abbey.
THE BRAVE COWBOY. An Old Tale in a New Time.
University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1984, 8vo., paperback, 285pp. Afterword by Neal E. Lambert. A Zio Book.
Trade paperback of Abbey's second novel, the basis for the classic film "Lonely are the Brave."
Jack Burnes is a loner at odds with modern civilization. A man out of time, he rides a feisty chestnut mare across the New West -- a once beautiful land smothered beneath airstrips and superhighways. And he lives by a personal code of ethics that sets him on a collision course More...with the keepers of law and order. Now he has stepped over the line by breaking one too many of society's rules. The hounds of justice are hot in his trail. But Burnes would rather die than spend even a single night behind bars. And they have to catch him first.
SIGNED by Edward Abbey.
SLUMGULLION STEW. An Edward Abbey Reader.
E. P. Dutton, New York, 1984, first edition, 8vo., white cloth over black boards, pict. dustjacket, 383pp., edited and illustrated by author.
An anthology containing Abbey's own selections of excerpts from 12 of the his books: Jonathan Troy, The Brave Cowboy, Fire on the Mountain, Desert Solitaire, Appalachian Wilderness, Black Sun, The Monkey Wrench Gang, The Journey Home, Abbey's Road, Good News, Down the River, and The Rites of Spring (a then unpublished work that was subsequently released as the author's masterpiece and last novel published in his lifetime, The Fool's Progress).
SIGNED "Edward Abbey 1984".
ONE LIFE AT A TIME, PLEASE.
Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1988, 8vo., paperback, 225pp.
First appearance of these collected essays. POLITICS: Free Speech, The Cowboy and His Cow; Arizona, How Big is Big Enough; Theory of Anarchy; Eco-Defense; Blood Sport; Immigration and Liberal Taboos; Wild Horses. TRAVEL: A San Francisco Journal; Lake Powell by Houseboat; River Solitaire, A Daybook; River of No Return; Forty Years as a Canyoneer; Big Bend; TV Show, Out There in the Rocks; Round River Rendezvous, The Rio Grande. BOOKS AND ART: A Writer's Credo; Mr Krutch; The Remington Studio; The Future of Sex, A Reaction to a Pair of Books--Brownmiller's Femininity and Steinum's Outrageous Acts; Emerson. NATURE LOVE: Sportsmen.
SIGNED by Edward Abbey.
HAYDUKE LIVES!
Little Brown & Company, Boston, 1990, first edition, 8vo., red cloth over yellow boards, pict. dustjacket, 308pp.
In this novel, Abbey's last work before his death, he resurrects the Monkey Wrench Gang against the glorious backdrop of the American Southwest that he defended and loved. With the code of the eco-warrior ringing in his ears, the reader is caught up in an explosion of militant hilarity, brought along for the ride as the gang maneuvers against the bad guys to stand up for what they stand on!
SIGNED by the real life model for Hayduke, "Doug Peacock (GWH)".
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