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Abbey, Edward. One Life at a Time, Please. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1988.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: 225pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/2 black cloth over red boards with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Signed by Abbey on the front free endsheet in the year of publication. Collection of essays by the celebrated curmudgeon. 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. "This book consists of a collection of pieces, most written on commission from some magazine editor, book publisher, or college speakers bureau. Whether or not each piece rises to the occasion I leave for the reader to judge. All were written for money, in the higher, finer sense of that ambiguous term - I have a wife, an ex-wife, several children, a dog, a cat, a mortgaged house, and a 1973 Ford pickup truck to support - and all were written for fun."
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Abbey, Edward.. One Life at a Time, Please.. NY, Henry Holt, 1988, 1988.
Price: US$420.00 + shipping
Description: NY, Henry Holt, 1988, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Preliminary remarks by Abbey, a collection of essays that first appeared, in abridged form, in newspapers, periodicals, and other publications, this copy briefly Inscribed by Abbey, signed copies are scarce. Fine.
Seller: James M. Dourgarian, Bookman ABAA, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Abbey, Edward. ONE LIFE AT A TIME, PLEASE. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1988.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by Edward Abbey to his friend, the New Mexico writer and publisher Ernie Bulow, on the front flyleaf: "for Ernie Bulow, mountainman, from his old compañero Ed Abbey, desertrat." Bulow first met Abbey in 1970 at the University of Utah, where Bulow was a graduate student and Abbey a visiting professor. Later, Abbey featured Bulow as a character in his final novel, The Fool's Progress (1988). Cactus Ed's last collection of essays, bringing together pieces previously published in abridged form in various magazines and newspapers, including Harper's, Mother Earth News, National Geographic, Architectural Digest, and the Arizona Daily Star. Includes essays on eco-defense, river travel ("Sanders is supposed to be here Thursday"), the growth of Arizona, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, as well as a writer's credo. Octavo. Original red paper-covered boards over a black cloth spine, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
ABBEY, Edward. One Life at a Time, Please. Henry Holt, New York, 1988.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Black cloth backed red boards, small 8vo, d.w. New York: Henry Holt, (1988). First Edition. Fine. Signed and dated by the author on the fly leaf. Santa Fe, 11/26/88
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Abbey, Edward. ONE LIFE AT A TIME, PLEASE. Signed. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1988.
Price: US$620.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition Signed and dated in the year of publication by Edward Abbey on the front free endpaper. 8vo. 225 pp. A fine copy in 1/4 black cloth over red paper covered boards, gilt titles to the spine in a fine pictorial dustwrapper. Classic Abbey. "The announcement of a new Abbey book, whether essays or fiction, stirs a personal craving no other current American writer can satisfy." Los Angeles Times Book Review.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada