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Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Fourth printing, hardcover, signed by Abbey on the front fly leaf, book has a mild skew to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, and a hint of smudging to the edges of the text block. Overall, a solid, tight, Very Good+ copy in an unclipped, Very Good dust jacket, which has bumps with creasing and a couple short tears to the spine ends and corners, thin cross creases to the spine and along the rear hinge, mild rubbing with slight edge wear to the covers, and faint sunning to the spine and edges. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar, and additional images are available by request.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$210.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: FLAT SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR at the lower front free enpaper. Near Fine in a Very Good DJ: The Book shows a tiny stain at the bottom edge of the text block at the heel of the backstrip due to water and a small faint stain at the bottom of the rear gutter due to same; a hint of crinkliness to the pages at that spot also also due to the water; else flawless; the binding is square and remains secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A handsome, nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing the noted imperfections only. Bright and Clean. Corners sharp. Very close to "As New". The DJ shows a dampstain at the heel of the backstrip and at the bottom of the rear gutter; mild rubbing and a hint of wear to the upper extremities; creases top to bottom of both interior flaps; the price ($10.95) has not been clipped. Attractive and intact, but not without flaw. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo (8.5 x 5.75 X 1 inches) . Illustrated with duotone graphics by Jim Stiles. Language: English. Weight: 16 ounces. Black quarter-cloth over umber boards with bright copper titles at the backstrip. Hardback with DJ. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xiv, 242 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 242p octavo a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Abbey on the front fly leaf
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Abbey, Edward. The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West. E.P.Duttin, N.Y., 1977.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Nice copy of the scarce hard bound, signed by Abbey on the ffep, and with the priced just barely clipped by the publisher
Seller: Recycled, Corte Madera, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed. First Edition. First ed, stated, full numberline. SIGNED by author on ffep. Very minor dust wear to white part of jacket (back). Otherwise VG/NF, in mylar. Pages/boards/jacket clean, binding sturdy.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 242pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/2 black cloth over rust boards with the title stamped on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Illustrations by Jim Stiles. Signed by Abbey on the front free endsheet. This Abbey's second major-work of nonfiction (after Deseret Solitaire), that offers reflections and observations that pursue his common themes of solitude and the remorse of the industrialization and destruction of wild places, particularly in the southwest. 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.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Some rubbing, edgewear, corner bumping, minor creasing and yellowing. Text has yellowed and has previous owners name inked onto inside front cover, but remains tight in binding. Signed and inscribed "For Tim + Marian" on the title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED. 242pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 black cloth with orange paper covered boards. The spine is subtly rolled and the top and bottom edges of the front board are negligibly faded. In a price-clipped dust jacket, featuring art by Jim Stiles, with general mild rubbing, traces of light soiling to the rear panel, and a short closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel. Jacket features a stylized illustration of the controversial Glen Canyon Dam in a state of destruction. Abbey was the literary father of the Earth First! group. The Journey Home is alive with ranchers, dam-builders, kissing bugs and mountain lions. This copy is signed by Edward Abbey on the front free endpaper.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$675.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition Signed by Edward Abbey on the front free endpaper. A fine fresh swagger copy in 1/4 black cloth over red paper covered boards, red titles to the spine in a fine pictorial dustwrapper. With illustrations by Jim Stiles. 8vo. 242 pp. Classic Abbey. "Abbey is one of our very best writers about wilderness country." Wallace Stegner, The Los Angeles Times Book Review.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by Abbey to fellow western author William Eastlake: "For Bill - good friend and comrade-in-letters for seventeen years - from Ed Abbey. Moab '77." William Eastlake is the author of the noted Checkerboard Trilogy. In 1955 he bought a 400-acre ranch in New Mexico that became a haven for writers like Edward Abbey, who made his first "pilgrimage" to the ranch in a Volkswagen bus, along with Robert Creeley, after reading Eastlake's first novel, *Go in Beauty*. Eastlake said in 1975: "My original reason for coming to New Mexico was that the American West has never been written about. A great many illiterates (.) have tried (.) but never any artists (.) so I have moved in and staked it out. Our great West, the American promise, has been waiting for two hundred years to be discovered, and that has been my dedication and delight, my Seven Cities of Cibola." A superb western association.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.