This copy is inscribed by Edward Abbey to Ernie Bulow, bookman, publisher, and friend of the author, on the front free endpaper. It has now gone on to sell over two million copies taking its rightful place alongside Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring as a classic of environmental and wilderness literature. Five thousand copies of the first edition were printed. The author's fourth book and first work of nonfiction. Drawings and jacket design by Peter Parnall. In a very attractive dust jacket, with light edge-wear, which includes a very short closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel.
Pretty good solitaire 20th anniversary edition full#
full brown cloth with white and brown stamped spine. The individual pieces part of a fully realized whole that defined a whole new style of environmental and wilderness writing, inspiring new generations of writers (Barry Lopez and Terry Tempest Williams come to mind) while becoming the author's best known and best loved work in the process, and yes, becoming what Abbey always feared, "a classic". The late author's reflections transcend the mere genre of the environmental essay. This collection of meditations by then park ranger Abbey in what was Arches National Monument of the 1950s was quietly published in the raucous sixties in a first edition of 5,000 copies, and has now gone on to sell almost two million copies taking its rightful place alongside Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, as an environmental and wilderness classic. The author's fourth book and his first work of nonfiction. Eight lines of text in blue ink and signed Ed A. Signed holographic letter from Abbey laid in. In a dust jacket, with subtle rubbing and chipping to the extremities. Blind ownership embossment in lower right corner of title page. Small bookstore sticker at head of front flap.
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