The Monkey Wrench Gang (association copy)
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the illustrated map front free endpaper: "To Cynthia Farah, from her friend Edward Abbey, Tucson 1984." Farah is a photographer and film critic and was a friend of many Southwest writers (among them also Cormac McCarthy). Notably she included Abbey in her photography book Literature & Landscape: Writers of the Southwest (1988), and a fine/fine signed copy of that book with her portrait of Edward Abbey is included here. Abbey's inscription predates that project. Farah went on to direct the film studies program at the University of Texas El Paso (UTEP) and has published other books documenting El Paso. Abbey's novel The Monkey Wrench Gang is one of the seminal books of the the environmental movement, not least for inspiring the founding of Earth First! Octavo in black paper boards and red cloth spine, with a silver illustration of wrench at lower right on the front board. Very near fine with perhaps just a little nudging to spine ends and a remainder mark on the lower text block face near the spine tail. In a very good jacket with a little toning and creasing to flap folds, light creasing to spine ends, and a very faint stain to lower right of the rear panel; jacket also slightly misaligned on the book. Near fine / Very good. Item #2079
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