Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey
First Peregrine Smith edition of Abbey's first book of non-fiction and an environmental classic. Signed by Abbey to the front endpaper. With drawings by Abbey that only appear in this edition and photographs by Gibbs Smith.
Salt Lake City, UT: Peregrine Smith, 1981. Publisher's original orange boards, lettered in black, pictorial endpapers; pp. xvi, [2], 269. A near fine copy in a very good or better, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains tight, sturdy and square, minimal wear to boards, tiny marker dot to bottom edge of text block. Internally clean and fine. Jacket shows minor shelfwear and rubbing with a small closed tear to front panel, spine a touch sunned. A nice copy, protected in archival mylar.