first edition Hardcover
1968 · New York
by Abbey, Edward
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Octavo (21 cm), pp. xiv [2], 269. Illustrated jacket, brown cloth, with drawings by Peter Parnall. Jacket has minor edgewear, boards slightly discolored along fore-edges, faint staining to endpapers and top edge of text block. An essential piece of the American nature-writing canon, Desert Solitaire documents Abbey's beloved Southwestern desert wastelands even as he feared they were disappearing.
(Inventory #: 40849)