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The Monkey Wrench Gang
by Abbey, Edward
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/fair
- Seller
-
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: J B Lippincott, (1975). First Edition. Hardcover. Good/fair. 352p octavo, Binding trifle cocked and with a tiny hole at the top of the boards, - and we think Abbey would find this hilarious-the book has been nibbled at the base of the spine, causing some loss to the cloth and a bit of the boards and the textblock in a poor dust jacket with a large chip on the front cover and a bit more nibbling at the upper flap fold. A unique copy as it is inscribed by Abbey "For my old friend Bill Eastlake, master story -teller, from whom I have learned (and borrowed) so very much ---- from Ed Abbey Moab, Utah 1975". Two lines underlined on page 31 which surely would have been Eastlake we assume. A fair to good copy of a great association.
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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- Bookseller
- Old New York Book Shop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47497
- Title
- The Monkey Wrench Gang
- Author
- Abbey, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- J B Lippincott
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- (1975)
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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Atlanta, Georgia
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
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- Jacket
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- Inscribed
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- Spine
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