New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971. First printing. Hardcover. 159pp. Octavo [21 cm] Black cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endsheet. The author's fifth book. Written at a time when his author's wife was dying in a hospital in new Jersey, and partly inspired by a woman... More about Black Sun
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 269pp. 8vo. Minor shelfwear to book; near fine. Price-clipped dust jacket lightly sunned at spine, minor chipping at extremities, two small closed tears to bottom edge of front panel and one crease to same location; very good. A bright and attractive copy. More about Desert Solitaire; A Season in the Wilderness
New York: Viking, 1977. John Blaustein. First edition, association copy. Hardcover. 135pp. Oblong quarto. Black cloth. Pictorial dust jacket. Very good. The bottom edges of the covers and spine are barely perceptibly faded. The dust jacket is in very good condition. Heavily rubbed. The edges are very gently bumped. The... More about The Hidden Canyon: A River Journey
New York: Penguin Books, 1977. John Blaustein. First paperback edition. Paperback. SIGNED. 135pp. Oblong quarto [22 cm x 30 cm] Pictorial wraps. Pages loose. Introduction by Martin Litton. Color photographs by John Blaustein. A journal by Abbey of an 18 day dory trip through the Colorado River in the Grand... More about The Hidden Canyon: A River Journey
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 242 pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 black cloth with brown paper covered boards. Signed by author Edward Abbey on the tipped-in front free endsheet. In a dust jacket (not price-clipped), with mild surface rubbing, and a shallow closed tear to the... More about The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 242 pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 black cloth with brown paper covered boards. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by author Edward Abbey on the front free endsheet. All of the Dutton novels by Abbey were issued in simultaneous... More about The Journey Home; Some Words in Defense of the American West
New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc., 1984. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 383pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 white cloth over black boards. Title stamped in red on backstrip. Illustrated by the author. Very good. The covers are very slightly warped. The edges of the spine and covers are gently bumped and rubbed... More about Slumgullion Stew: An Edward Abbey Reader
New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc., 1984. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 383pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 white cloth with black paper over boards. Title stamped in red on the backstrip. Illustrated by the author. Very good, with a a handful of small, light stains on the fore edge of the text... More about Slumgullion Stew: An Edward Abbey Reader
Albuquerque, NM: Albuquerque Sierra Club, 1984. First edition. Paperback. SIGNED. [46] pp. Stapled beige and brown illustrated wrappers. Contains the text of speeches given by Edward Abbey and John Nichols at the Albuquerque, New Mexico Sierra Club in support of protecting the mountain lions. The booklet, purportedly issued in an... More about In Praise of Mountain Lions: Original Praises by Edward Abbey and John Nichols
New York: Doubleday, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 184 pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 red paper with bright paper covered boards. Very good. The edges of the covers are very lightly bumped and rubbed. There is a tiny stain on the top edge of the front cover. The dust jacket... More about The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
New York: Atheneum, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 330pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/2 black cloth over mustard boards. Near fine/Fine. Former owner's blind stamp on the front free endsheet. Inscribed the author in ink on the front free endsheet. More about The Stories of Eva Luna
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Turquoise cloth spine and boards. Light bumping at the head and tail of the spine and at the tips of the lower corners. Black publisher's remainder mark on the lower edge. Dust Jacket. . More about In the Name of Salomé
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Turquoise cloth spine and boards. Light bumping at the head and tail of the spine. Black publisher's remainder mark on the upper edge. Dust Jacket. . More about In the Name of Salomé
New York: Dutton Books, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Red boards quarterbound in black cloth. Fair amount of bumping at the head of the spine. Upper corner of first couple pages wavy. Dust Jacket. . More about The Other Side / El Otro Lado
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Ochre colored boards quarterbound in blue cloth spine. Light bump at tail of the spine. Dust Jacket. . More about Yo!
Berkeley, CA: Quinto Sol, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Ex-library with fewer markings than is usual. First printing, in second state jacket. 248 pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] in black cloth. Rubbing and rippling to jacket, small dampstain to jacket spine; remnant of library label on spine at foot, with small... More about Bless Me, Ultima
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 279pp. Octavo [21 cm] Navy blue cloth over boards with red ink lettering on the backstrip and front board. The spine is prominently rolled, there are a couple of trivial white stains at the foot of the spine, and there is... More about Rain Before Seven
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 310 pp. Original black cloth with red stamped title to the front cover and spine. Slight wear at edges and spine ends. Internally fine. John August is a pseudonym for Bernard DeVoto. More about Troubled Star
New York: The Century Co., 1924. John Edwin Jackson. First edition. Hardcover. 459pp. Octavo [21 cm]. Original yellow cloth with stamped titles and illustrations on the front cover and backstrip. Good only. The cloth is beginning to fray and tear at the edges and corners, spine slightly leaning. Clean text... More about The Land of Journey's Ending
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. 281pp. Octavo in olive green cloth with decorative stamping in three colors and gilt, top edge gilt. Extremities rubbed, else very light wear; front hinge cracked (but holding), interior unmarked. Monotone frontispiece and numerous marginal illustrations. Mary Austin's... More about The Land of Little Rain
Texas: Texas A&M University Press; A Wardlaw Book, 1985. Elizabeth Hughes. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 123pp. Octavo [22 cm] Rust colored cloth covered boards white and black ink stamped title information on the spine. With light rubbing at the spine ends, and a subtle indentation along the top edge of... More about The Deer Pasture
Texas: Texas A&M University Press; A Wardlaw Book, 1985. Elizabeth Hughes. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 123pp. Octavo [22 cm] Rust colored cloth covered boards white and black ink stamped title information on the spine. With light rubbing at the spine ends and corners of the covers. The price-clipped dust jacket... More about The Deer Pasture
Texas: Texas A&M University Press; A Wardlaw Book, 1985. Elizabeth Hughes. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 123pp. Octavo [22 cm] Rust colored cloth covered boards white and black ink stamped title information on the spine. With light rubbing at the spine ends. The price-clipped dust jacket has marginal surface and edge... More about The Deer Pasture
Salt Lake City, UT: Ken Sanders Rare Books, 2005. First edition. Paperback. Limited edition chapbook, hand-stitched binding, in red wrappers, with black end papers. Cover design by Edward Bateman. Book design and letterpress printing by Jason Davis at Verdant Press. One of 100 copies signed by the author. There are... More about Book Collecting: The Last Refuge of the Illiterate
Salt Lake City, UT: Ken Sanders Rare Books, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. 8pp. Octavo [22 cm.] Limited edition chapbook, hand-stitched binding, case bound in black cloth boards, with red paper labels pasted front and rear. Rear endsheet serves as the colophon, with the author's signature cover design by Edward Bateman... More about Book Collecting: The Last Refuge of the Illiterate