Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Abbey, Edward. The Monkey Wrench Gang. Dream Garden Press, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1985.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED by Abbey in red ink on the first free endpaper. This is the trade edition of the Tenth Anniversary Edition published by Dream Garden Press. Illustrated by R. Crumb. Small wrinkle in cloth binding on the front cover, wrinkles on the rear pastedown - these are slight manufacturing defects. Bottom corner gently bumped. Dust jacket has its original price of $17.95. Dust jacket spine slightly age darkened. DJ has a 1.5 inch tear in the rear panel near the spine. Ships same or next business day very well protected in a box. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 356 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Good Books In The Woods, Spring, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "The Monkey Wrench Gang" by Edward Abbey and illustrated by R. Crumb. Dream Garden Press, 1985 10th anniversary edition. Book and dust jacket in very good condition. Signed by Edward Abbey on front endpaper.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Edward Abbey. The Monkey Wrench Gang. Dream Garden Press, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1985.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Salt Lake City, UT: Dream Garden, 1985. 1st edition thus (10th anniversary), signed by Abbey on FFE., NF/VG. Book has some light wear to spine ends. DJ has some general edge wear to spine ends, light wear to corners, edge wear & light staining to inside of jacket, closed tear on lower front panel. Color illustration on front panel of dust jacket, and many further b & w illustrations throughout by R. Crumb. An iconic environmental novel of the American west and probably Abbey's most famous book. 356 pp. BP
Seller: Blue Skye Books, Novato, CA, U.S.A.
Abbey, Edward. THE MONKEY WRENCH GANG; SIGNED. Dream Garden Press, Salt Lake City, 1985.
Price: US$289.00 + shipping
Description: 10th Anniversary Edition. Illustrated by Crumb. SIGNED by Edward Abbey. Black cloth is a tad dull. Dust jacket has 2 closed tears, 2" & under-1", gently repaired, 1 with under-1" archival tape. Very nice near fine. Collectible. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall
Seller: Artis Books & Antiques, Calumet, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo; 356 pages; Inscribed by Abbey on the front free endpaper. ; Signed by Author
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 356 pages. 8vo. Signed by the author in red ink on the front free end paper. Stated second printing of the tenth anniversary edition. Dust jacket is not price clipped, no tears or chips, in excellent bright condition, now protected in mylar. Map end papers. Book is solid, square, tight, no previous owner's names or marks except the author's autograph. A very collectible copy.
Seller: ARABESQUE BOOKS, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Abbey, Edward. The Monkey Wrench Gang. Dream Garden Press, 1985.
Price: US$465.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second printing in very good condition inscribed to "Mark" and signed by Abbey. Tenth Anniversary edition. Nice inscription.
Seller: Ink, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good Book/Good Dust Jacket. Tenth Anniversary Edition. Trade Edition. Illustrations by R. Crumb. Inscribed by both the author and illustrator in ink directly to the front free endpaper: "for Michael, Ed Abbey, SLC '85" "& R. Crumb". Black full cloth binding with silver stamped title and illustration on front, silver stamped title on spine, and illustrated endpapers. Covers are clean, silver is bright, corners are sharp. Dust jacket shows age tanning, creases, rubbing, scratches, soiling, and spots of foxing. Chipping to top edge and corners. Edgewear to bottom edge. Indentations from grooves to front and rear panels. Spine shows light wrinkling and scratches. Two 1/4" open tears to head of spine. Dust jacket is not price clipped with $17.95 price on the front flap. Verso of dust jacket shows spots of foxing. All edges of textblock show a few small scratches and spots of foxing. Hinges strong. Binding tight and square. Pages clean and unmarked. 356 pages. 6-1/4 X 9-1/4.
Seller: Roebling Books, Covington, KY, U.S.A.
Abbey, Edward. The Monkey Wrench Gang. Dream Garden Press, Salt Lake City, UT, 1985.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED. 352pp. Octavo [22 cm] Black hardcover with a gilt stamped title on the spine. The covers are a bit cocked, and the very tips of the bottom of the boars ans spine are a trifle sunned. In the illustrated dust jacket, which is price-clipped, and has light rubbing to the surface. The edges have a handful of very shallow tears, mostly closed. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. The Monkey Wrench Gang, Abbey's ecoterrorism novel, spawned the radical environmental group Earth First!, and has gone on to become what the author always dreadedâ" a classic, selling more than a million copies. Tenth Anniversary Edition, Second Printing.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Abbey, Edward. The Monkey Wrench Gang. Dream Garden Press, Salt Lake City, UT, 1985.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: DOUBLE SIGNED. 356pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles, and a gilt stamped design of a wrench on the front cover. The head of the spine is just a hair bumped. Cartographic endpapers. In a dust jacket, with minor rubbing to the front panel, and a miniscule notation next to the price on the front flap. Very bright. A very attractive copy. The author's sixth and most famous novel and his eleventh book. The first printing of the tenth anniversary edition. Includes eleven full page and thirty chapter head illustrations by the incomparable R. Crumb. This copy is signed and by both Abbey and Crumb, in the year of publication, on the front free endpaper. Crumb writes the date, "85" by his signature. Signed at the publisher's release party.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Edward Abbey. The Monkey Wrench Gang. Dream Garden Press, 1985.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The very rare signed limited edition of the Monkey Wrench Gang. This is a limited version of the tenth anniversary edition published by Ken Sanders' Dream Garden Press, illustrated with the famous drawings by Robert Crumb. It consisted of 250 numbered copies signed by Abbey, as well as an original art print signed by the illustrator Robert Crumb. A beautiful copy in fine condition. Very tight, resists opening. The slipcase is fine except the label is just a bit loose on one side. The photos are the best description. A chance to own an exceptional rarity with the signatures of both Abbey and Crumb.
Seller: Green River Books, Gainesville, FL, U.S.A.
Abbey, Edward. The Monkey Wrench Gang. Dream Garden Press, Salt Lake City, UT, 1985.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED. 356pp. Octavo [23.5 cm.] Red cloth with gilt stamped title to front board and backstrip. The spine is faded; otherwise, the book is without flaw. No dust jacket, as issued. Housed in a tan slipcase with full color work to front panel. Corners lightly bumped. Two faint marks of soiling. Illustrated by famed underground cartoonist and sometime musician, R. Crumb. Tenth anniversary double signed edition. Signed by Edward Abbey on the limitation page. Signed and numbered print, "You Can't Never Go Wrong Cuttin' Fence" by R. Crumb laid in. The book and print are numbered 186 of 250. The late, great Edward Abbey published twenty-one books during his lifetime (two posthumously). Both "The Monkey Wrench Gang" and "Desert Solitaire" have become what the author always dreaded (classics!), with over one million copies of each title sold.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Abbey, Edward; Crumb, R.. The Monkey Wrench Gang. Dream Garden Press, Salt Lake City, 1985.
Price: US$1400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Salt Lake City: Dream Garden Press, 1985. Octavo. Hardcover in a slipcase. This is one of 250 copies signed by Abbey and including a loose print signed by Crumb. Additionally, this is one of only fifty copies signed by the (actually existing) individuals who inspired the characters in Abbey's immortal novel. This particular copy is lacking the signature of Bonnie Abbzug, aka Ingrid Eisenstadter. Copy number 46 of 50 signed by the novel's characters and copy 196/250 signed by Abbey and including the print signed by Crumb. Slipcase has trace rubbing along the bottom of one edge. Book has never been read. Book and slipcase are both in near fine condition.
Seller: Bad Animal, Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.
ABBEY, Edward / R. CRUMB. The Monkey Wrench Gang. Dream Garden Press, Salt Lake City, 1985.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 356, [1] pages. Illustrated by R. Crumb. Special edition bound in red cloth; slipcase with mounted picture. Limited edition, one of 250 copies, but this copy out-of-series and lettered "A" with designation as "Publisher's Presentation Copy." Signed by Abbey. With an unpublished print by R. Crumb laid-in as issued, with his signature. A fine copy, slight wear to one joint of the slipcase
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.