SIGNED BY EDWARD ABBEY
ABBEY, Edward. The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West. New York: E.P. Dutton, (1977). Octavo, original half black cloth, original dust jacket.
First edition of Abbey’s autobiographical exploration of “connections and contradictions among wildness and wilderness, community and anarchy; between civilization and human freedom” (Introduction), signed by Edward Abbey.
In The Journey Home, essayist and novelist Abbey also acted as “an ecology terrorist, a bold and happy outlaw who toppled billboards, tampered with bulldozers and committed other small symbolic crimes” (New York Times). “Abbey’s self-conscious role was to combine, in both person and writings, the ecologically sensitive wilderness westerner with the Enlightenment rebel-skeptic in a post-World War II he-man manner… His late 20th-century apocalyptic social concern as well as his personal responsiveness in a wry western style may convey a distinctive American rebelliousness” (ANB).
Book with faint corner dampstain to rear half of text block, dust jacket fine. A very nearly fine signed copy.