The price clipped dust jacket is in similar condition with a small tear and a small triangular piece, 14mm X 8mm, missing on the back of the jacket, now in a protective mylar wrap. While very sound and square the book has a gentle, used book feel to it and has been read by at least me. Easily Abbey's most famous work of fiction, the novel concerns the use of sabotage to protest environmentally damaging activities in the Southwestern United States, and was so influential that the term "monkey wrench" has come to mean, besides sabotage and damage to machines, any sabotage, activism, law-making, or law-breaking to preserve wilderness, wild spaces and ecosystems This book, 352 pages, is in very good condition. Edward Paul Abbey (1927 1989) was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, criticism of public land policies, and anarchist political views. When George Washington Hayduke III returns home from war in the jungles of Southeast Asia, he finds the unspoiled West he once knew has been transformed. While the book is the American first edition, this book has a Canadian review copy slip compliments of McClelland and Stewart Limited. The Monkey Wrench Gang is a novel written by American author Edward Abbey (19271989), published in 1975. Monkey Wrench Gang Abbey, Edward Published by Avon Books, New York, NY, 1976 ISBN 10: 038000741X ISBN 13: 9780380007417 Seller: nelsons books, Chazy, U.S.A. A motley crew of saboteurs wreaks havoc on the corporations destroying America’s Western wilderness in this wildly funny, infinitely wise classic (The Houston Chronicle). Lippincott, Philadelphia and New York, 1975.
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