New York: Avon, 1976. Paperback. Good-/None. Signed. **SIGNED** on verso of illustrated front cover, darkened with age. Mass market paperback, 8th printing. Binding tight. Only one crease on spine. Cover edges lightly rubbed and 2 in. crease on rear cover, else good. Interior clean and unmarked. Abbey's most famous fiction work, an adventure that spawned new thinking in environmentalism in the U.S. and coined the term ""monkeywrench"" to indicate an act of sabotage or activism to preserve wilderness and ecosystems. Abbey himself called the book a ""comic extravaganza.""

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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: Quadrant Book Mart (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 7009
Title: Monkey Wrench Gang
Author: Abbey, Edward
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Good-/None
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 038000741X
ISBN 13: 9780380007417
Publisher: Avon
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1976
Pages: 387

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