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The Monkey Wrench Gang (A first edition in a custom made slipcase)
by Abbey, Edward
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0397010842
- ISBN 13
- 9780397010844
- Seller
-
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
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!
Synopsis
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 violence, sabotage, activism, law-making, or law-breaking to preserve wilderness, wild spaces and ecosystems.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 65995
- Title
- The Monkey Wrench Gang (A first edition in a custom made slipcase)
- Author
- Abbey, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0397010842
- ISBN 13
- 9780397010844
- Publisher
- J.P. Lippincott
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- Edward Abbey; Literature; Earth First!; Monkey Wrench; first edition; RBMS2024
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We actively purchase and appraise books in all fields.
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