Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$5.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Light wear. Very light soiling. Lightly bumped corners. The black spine is lightly faded to grey.
Seller: Book Nook, Cadillac, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Description: Part of book series about American wilderness areas, all profusely illus w color photos. Nice bright crisp clean copy. 8-3/4 x 10, 184 pages, index, bibliography, color photos. Good with unmarked contents, small dent to front cover. Hardcover in color photo boards, no jacket as issued.
Seller: Ed Buryn Books, Nevada City, CA, U.S.A.
Abbey, Edward. Cactus Country. Time-Life Books, New York, 1973.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No jacket as issued. Some foxing to page ends, mostly at top and bump/split to top front corner.
Seller: Lost Paddle Books, IOBA, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
Abbey, Edward. Cactus Country. Time Life, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1973.
Price: US$19.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Rub to top corner of back board and three dog ears, Some rubbing to boards.
Seller: Ash Grove Heirloom Books, Pueblo, CO, U.S.A.
Abbey, Edward. Cactus Country. Time Life, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1973.
Price: US$19.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Book has dent on edge at the bottom of front board and the spine is sun/exposure lightened.
Seller: Ash Grove Heirloom Books, Pueblo, CO, U.S.A.
ABBEY, EDWARD. CACTUS COUNTRY. NEW YORK NY TIME-LIFE BOOKS PUB 1973., 1973.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: F/NONE. LATER PRINTINNG WITHOUT THE QUARTER CLOTH SPINE AND HOURGLASS LOGO ON FINAL PAGE (184) NAME/ADRESS STAMP ON THE REAR PASTE-DOWN ENDPAPER. Binding is HARDCOVER.
Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.
Abbey, Edward. Cactus Country. Time Life, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1973.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Some rub/wear.
Seller: Ash Grove Heirloom Books, Pueblo, CO, U.S.A.
Abbey, Edward. Cactus Country. Time-Life Books, New York, 1973.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An important series of essays by Edward Abbey, often overlooked. First Printing (Hourglass printed at base of last page of index). 184 pp. 4to. Light wear to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Crisp within. Light blue ink underlining on pages 21-25. Clean otherwise.
Seller: Craig Olson Books, ABAA/ILAB, Belfast, ME, U.S.A.
ABBEY, Edward. Cactus Country: The American Wilderness. Time Life Books, New York, 1973.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Small erasure mark on first page, some light wear and rubbing to the edges and rear board, else near fine lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
ABBEY, Edward. Cactus Country: The American Wilderness. Time Life Books, New York, 1973.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Some light wear and rubbing to the rear board, else fine lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
ABBEY, Edward. Cactus Country: The American Wilderness. Time Life Books, New York, 1973.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Some light wear and rubbing to the corners and rear board, else fine, lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
ABBEY, EDWARD. CACTUS COUNTRY. NEW YORK NY TIME-LIFE BOOKS PUB 1973., 1973.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: VG+/NONE. WITH QUARTER CLOTH SPINE AND HOURGLASS LOGO ON FINAL PAGE (184) THE BLACK CLOTH SPINE IS COLOR-FADED WITH NO AFFECT ON THE SPINE TITLES. A VERY NICE COPY. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.
Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.
ABBEY, Edward and the editors of Time-Life Books.. Cactus Country.. Time-Life Books, New York, 1973.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition / First printing. Hourglass symbol is present on last page. Black cloth spine, pictorial laminated boards. 184 pages. Fine, issued without dust jacket.
Seller: Orpheus Books, Edmonds, WA, U.S.A.
Abbey, Edward. Cactus Country. Time-Life Books, New York, 1973.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: 184pp. Quarto [26 cm] 1/4 black cloth with glossy illustrated paper over boards. With the hourglass on the last page. Very good. The front board is just a tiny bit warped, and the corners of the covers are ever so slightly rubbed. The price-clipped dust jacket is in good only condition with a large open tear in the top edge of the rear panel that measures 1 inch wide by 1 and 1/4 inches deep. The edges have numerous short and long closed tears as well. The longest closed tear measures 3 inches long. There are 4 pieces of tape backing the tears along the top edge. Photography by Ernst Haas. A journey in book form through southern Arizona and northern Mexico, guided by former park ranger and desert rat, Edward Abbey.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Abbey, Edward. Cactus Country. Time Life Books, New York, NY, 1973.
Price: US$25.45 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Series: The American Wilderness; 10.2 X 9.0 X 0.6 inches; 184 pages; Glossy Illustrated Boards. No Dust Jacket. Book Tight. Color Photographs. Text is clean no markings seen
Seller: Ye Old Bookworm, Odessa, TX, U.S.A.
Abbey, Edward.. CACTUS COUNTRY.. New York: Time-Life, (1973.), 1973.
Price: US$28.50 + shipping
Description: Hardcover first edition - First edition. A title in The American Wilderness Series- the credits describe Abbey as 'a self-proclaimed desert rat." Beautifully illustrated with many full color and black and white photographs, including some double page ones. Slightly oversized format. Index. 184 pp. True first printing with the hourglass on the last page. Near fine in illustrated boards with a black cloth spine, issued without a dust jacket (corners slightly bumped.).
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Abbey, Edward. Cactus Country. Time-Life Books (1973)., New York, 1973.
Price: US$28.69 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Glossy pictorial boards with cloth spine. 184 pp. Illustrated. Bibliography. No dust jacket. Spine faded. A clean, attractive copy. "Explores the landforms, animal life, plants, and meteorological conditions found in the Sonoran Desert of southern Arizona and northern Mexico."
Seller: Magic Carpet Books, Carson City, NV, U.S.A.
ABBEY, Edward. Cactus Country. Time-Life Books, New York, 1973.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Small quarto. 184pp. Illustrated from photographs. Rubbing on the boards, foxing on the page edges and on a few pages, thus very good.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Abbey, Edward [Editor].. Cactus Country.. Time-Life Books., New York., 1973.
Price: US$32.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Uncommon in dust jacket. weight: 1.6 lb. Fine in a very good dust jacket with two short closed tears. Numerous illustrations. Series: The American Wilderness series. 26x22.5 cm. Quarter black cloth over glossy pictorial boards.
Seller: Zephyr Books, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Abbey, Edward. Cactus Country. Time Life Books, New York, 1973.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: Very pretty full color book of photos of the desert along with text by the noted western writer Edward Abbey.This is the true 1st with the tiny hourglass logo on the last pg. Issued without a dustjacket. Tiny touch of wear to the tips of the book. Vg.
Seller: Ira Joel Haber - Cinemage Books, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Abbey, Edward. Cactus Country. Time-Life, New York, 1973.
Price: US$44.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Wonderful Time-Life book in The American Wilderness Series about the Sonoran Desert with gorgeous photographs by Ernst Haas; dust jacket is worn with 1 inch piece off bottom of spine, edge-worn, price-clipped. Book has required hour glass on back page & in good condition. Covered in archival mylar. See attached picture!
Seller: Blue Heaven Books, Grand Marais, MB, Canada
Price: US$44.50 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. 1973 Printing w/HOURGLASS GRAPHIC to last page. Illustrated (giant saguaros) boards w/black cloth backstrap. DJ/None (as Isued:). Published w/o ISBN; ISBN subsequently assigned. Natural history of some 69,000 square miles of southern Arizona and northern Mexico Sonora Desert lands. Text by long resident of the Amerian Southwest, Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989) who gave us Desert Solitaire, and his personal odyssey in Abbey's Road. Superb photography from the staff of Time-Life Books.
Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Abbey, Edward. CACTUS COUNTRY. New York: TIME-LIFE BOOKS (1973), 1973.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. The True First Edition in 'The American Wilderness Series' with text by the self-proclaimed desert rat, Edward Abbey. A fine, tight copy, issued without dustwrapper. With one only hourglass at the bottom of the last page of text. A near fine copy wi th a lightly faded spine [no dustwrapper] & lightly rubbed tips.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Abbey, Edward. Cactus Country. Time Life Books, New York, New York, 1973.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Text by Edward Abbey and the Editors of Time Life Books. The American Wilderness Series. Mylar covered. Chipped cover with back corner lightly bumped. Price clipped. Tag glue mark on front end pages. Interior is tight and clean. The photography by Ernest Hass is beautiful and the text by Edward Abbey makes this a very special addition to any southwestern book collection. Inventory #000182. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Casa Camino Real, Las Cruces, NM, U.S.A.
Edward Abbey. Cactus Country. Time-Life Books,, New York:, 1973.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Near fine with the tips of the boards very slightly rubbed, else fine. A nearly square quarto of 10 by 8 3/4 inches. In a very near fine, unclipped dust jacket with rubbing to the fold to the front flap. Part of the Time-Life series of The American Wilderness. 184 pages including an index, bibliography and text. Illustrated throughout with images from color photographs. Quite uncommon in its issued dust jacket and this one has muliple price stickers on its front flap a sign of the inflationary economy at that time.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Abbey, Edward.. Cactus Country.. Time-Life Books, New York, 1973.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Issue with hourglass symbol on last page. A Fine copy in quarter black cloth over glossy illustrated paper covered boards, in dustwrapper of same design, not price-clipped. 184pp. Uncommon in the jacket. Q13439
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
ABBEY, EDWARD. CACTUS COUNTRY. NEW YORK NY TIME-LIFE BOOKS PUB 1973., 1973.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: F/VG+. D.J. HAS A COUPLE OF SHORT TEARS ON THE FRONT PANEL WITH SOME LIGHT RUBBING TO THE FRONT FORE-EDGE FOLD, AND PRICE-CLIPPED. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN AND TIGHT COPY AND SCARCE IN D.J. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.
Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.
Abbey, Edward. Cactus Country. Time-Life, New York, 1973.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: 184pp. Quarto [26 cm] 1/4 black cloth over pictorial boards. Very good/Very good. Signed by Abbey on the title page. Profusely illustrated work on the Sonoran Desert, a volume in the Time-Life series 'American Wilderness.' Edward Abbey (1927-1989) was a celebrated author, essayist, conservationist, noted pain-in-the-ass, and in many ways the father (or at the very least, uncle) of the modern environmental movements.
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.