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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness

Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Abbey, Edward

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Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Title
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
Author
Abbey, Edward
Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Peter Parnall. 269pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Brown cloth. Illustrated. Spine ends gently bruised. A few tiny scuffs to extremities. Small bookstore sticker at head of front flap. Blind ownership embossment in lower right corner of title page. In a dust jacket, with subtle rubbing and chipping to the extremities. Signed holographic letter from Abbey laid in. Eight lines of text in blue ink and signed Ed A. The author's fourth book and his first work of nonfiction. This collection of meditations by then park ranger Abbey in what was Arches National Monument of the 1950s was quietly published in the raucous sixties in a first edition of 5,000 copies, and has now gone on to sell almost two million copies taking its rightful place alongside Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, as an environmental and wilderness classic. The late author's reflections transcend the mere genre of the environmental essay. The individual pieces part of a fully realized whole that defined a whole new style of environmental and wilderness writing, inspiring new generations of writers (Barry Lopez and Terry Tempest Williams come to mind) while becoming the author's best known and best loved work in the process, and yes, becoming what Abbey always feared, "a classic
Through the Lens:  National Geographic Greatest Photographs
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Through the Lens: National Geographic Greatest Photographs by ABELL, Sam, et al (essays)

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Title
Through the Lens: National Geographic Greatest Photographs
Author
ABELL, Sam, et al (essays)
Seller
Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780792261643
Condition
Fine in Fine dust jacket
Description
Washington:: National Geographic Society,. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. Hardcover. 079226164X . Color and black and white photographs throughout. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. .