Into the Wild

New York, NY: Random House: Villard. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1996. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. First Edition (1996) ; Second Printing. Very Good in Very Good DJ: The Book shows shelving wear to the lower extremities; slight spine lean; mild buckle to the head of the backstrip; a former owner's personalized bookplate; the binding is slightly cocked but remains secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text.. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. A carefully used copy, structurally sound and tightly bound copy, showing mild wear and minor cosmetic imperfections. The DJ shows a mild 'crinkliness' to the uppe front panel due to exposure to water (no actual dampstain) ; mild rubbing to the front panel; three tiny tears to the outside edges of the panels; light wear to the extremities; the price is intact. With the original price of $22.00 still present; mylar-protected. Remains attractive and intact, but is not without flaw. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (9.5 x 6.65 x 0.9 inches) . Xi, 207 pages. Maps in black & white. Language: English. Weight: 18 ounces. Endpaper maps. Black quarter cloth with grey black-embossed boards; silver titles at the backstrip. Hardback with DJ. Author's first book. After graduating from Emory University in Atlanta in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24, 000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska, where he went to live in the wilderness. Four months later, he turned up dead. His diary, letters and two notes found at a remote campsite tell of his desperate effort to survive, apparently stranded by an injury and slowly starving. They also reflect the posturing of a confused young man, raised in affluent Annandale, Va. , who self-consciously adopted a Tolstoyan renunciation of wealth and return to nature. Krakauer retraces McCandless's ill-fated antagonism toward his father, Walt, an eminent aerospace engineer. Krakauer also draws parallels to his own reckless youthful exploit in 1977 when he climbed Devils Thumb, a mountain on the Alaska-British Columbia border, partly as a symbolic act of rebellion against his autocratic father. In a moving narrative, Krakauer probes the mystery of McCandless's death.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; xi, 207 pages; Signed by Author .