DESERT SOLITAIRE: A SEASON IN THE WILDERNESS
New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968. First Edition, First Printing, First State Dust Jacket. Octavo, xv, 269 pages. In In Good condition with a Good condition. Tan and purple spine with aged white lettering. Dust jacket wrapped in mylar covering, price is uncut "$5.95", is not price-clipped, has mild wear along the head and tail edges, has tearing along the rear joints, has a tear along the front tail, has chipping along the fore corners, and has moderate wear along the spine head and tail edges. Boards have mild shelving wear, staining along the rear tail, have mild wear along the edges, bending along the front tail corner, and has moderate wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has staining on the front and rear pastedowns and end-pages, pencil markings on the rear pastedown, and has mild age-toning along the edges. DL consignment. Shelved in Case 6.
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Price: $800
NOTES
Edward Abbey was born on January 29, 1927 in Indiana, PA. Abbey was greatly influenced by his parents, his mother was a church organizer, his father a socialist and anarchist. They, together with his experience serving as a military policeman in the second World War, left him with a great distrust of large institutions and regulations which in turn had a great influence on his writings. Following the completion of his masters thesis exploring anarchism and the morality of violence, Abbey would begin work as a park ranger across various national parks. It would be his time as a park ranger, between 1956-1957, in Utah that would most shape his first non-fiction work, "Desert Solitaire". The book follows Abbey's stay in the desert country of southeastern Utah and ruminates on the various tensions between humans and the desert environment.