first edition Hardcover
1981 · Salt Lake City
by Abbey, Edward
Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith, 1981. First Peregrine Smith Edition. Hardcover. Very Good -/Very good. Edward Abbey. SIGNED. 269pp. Octavo [22 cm] Light orange boards with title stamped in black ink on spine and front cover. Pictorial endpapers. Spine a touch rolled; spine ends bumped. Light rubbing to edges of the boards. Dust jacket is bright, though the spine is a tiny bit sun toned. Edges a bit chipped. Inscribed by Edward Abbey in black ink on the front free endpaper.
A work first published in 1968. Drawings by Edward Abbey. Photographs by Gibbs Smith.
Includes a four page introduction by the author that only appears in this edition. Illustrated with nineteen chapter head illustrations by the author that appear only in this edition. The author's seminal and enduring work. Abbey foresaw the coming of industrial tourism while a ranger at then Arches National Monument in the 1950s. (Inventory #: 68030)
A work first published in 1968. Drawings by Edward Abbey. Photographs by Gibbs Smith.
Includes a four page introduction by the author that only appears in this edition. Illustrated with nineteen chapter head illustrations by the author that appear only in this edition. The author's seminal and enduring work. Abbey foresaw the coming of industrial tourism while a ranger at then Arches National Monument in the 1950s. (Inventory #: 68030)
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