Fools Progress by Abbey Edward, Signed (21 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Price clipped jacket moderately rubbed and lightly edge worn, spine lightly faded. Light toning along head and foot on verso of jacket, not apparent on recto. Light toning to end-papers and paste-downs, name inked to head of front free end-paper. Binding firm, text unmarked. Inscribed "To Tom/ Seattle/ 10/31/88" and signed on title-page. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Abbey to previous owners on endpaper! Full number line, this is the first printing of the first edition, hardcover in jacket. Book is solid overall with bright boards and gilt on blue cloth spine. Some age-toning to the pages, mild reading wear. A few small chips at jacket corners; light rubbing. An attractive, collectible copy with jacket in protective mylar sleeve. Inscribed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Inscribed First Edition, First Printing of this later novel by Edward Abbey. Inscribed by Edward Abbey to a previous owner on the title page. 485 pages. Has a previous owner embossed stamp on the half title page. Otherwise, Minimal sign of previous use. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. New York (1988). First edition stated. First print. Signed and warmly inscribed by Abbey on the title page. A very near fine hard copy in a fine jacket. 485 pp. This copy presents well. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Very good+ in near fine jacket. Foxing to top edge, barely discernable foxing to bottom edge text block. Very mild sunning. First edition, first printing. Signed on the flyleaf by Abbey and dated 'October 10, 1988'. Henry Holt and Company: New York, 1988. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Original first edition, with typos on jacket flaps that were corrected in later "first" editions. Signed by Abbey on FFEP. Binding tight. Pages unmarked and barely aged. Black cloth/gold paper cover with little or no wear. Dustjacket --- now in mylar -- is price-clipped and has defunct bookstore sticker, but with only minor wear on edges. Support an independent used bookstore in Minneapolis! ; 9.10 X 6.30 X 1.70 inches; 485 pages; Signed by Author.

Condition: Fine. FIRST EDITION HARDBACK SIGNED and INSCRIBED by EDWARD ABBEY on the Front Free End Paper. Book condition is Fine. Price Clipped Dust Jacket is Very Good. This is the Author's final book published in his lifetime. Previous owners gift inscription on the front free endpaper. NOTE: 1st issue Dust Jacket with "mist for myth" and "Mickey for Becky" on front and rear Dust Jacket flaps Dust Jacket will be nicely Cleaned up and protected with an Acid Free Clear Archival Cover. 6.25 x 9.25 Inches in size 485 numbered pages FIRST PRINTING with a full number line 1-10 of the FIRST EDITION.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition w/complete number line, hardcover, signed by Abbey on the front fly leaf, the book has a shallow skew to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, a few tiny spots to the head of the text block, and some effaced bookseller marks to the upper fore corner of the front fly leaf. Overall, this is a solid, tight and bright, Very Good+ copy in a like, unclipped dust jacket, which has bumps with some light creasing to the spine ends and corners, a hint of sunning to the spine, and some mild rubbing to the covers. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine first American edition, first printing in fine dj. Signed in Salt Lake City in 1988. Price clipped. Appears unread. 1st issue with "mist for myth" and "Mickey for Becky" on front and rear dj flaps. Abbey is best known for 'Desert Solitaire' and 'The Monkey Wrench Gang'. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good w/ Protective Cover. First American Edition. Very good condition. Slight rubbing on the covers. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. By Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition. SIGNED. 485pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] in boards over cloth spine. Minor bruising at the spine ends. Very light soiling to the fore-edge of the text block. In a dust jacket, with rubbing to the panels, and a couple of 3" scratches and tiny open surface nick to the rear panel. Inscribed by Edward Abbey, in the year of publication, on tipped-in front free endpaper: "To ____ - best regards! Edward Abbey, SLC 11/29/88." Abbey considered Fool's Progress to be his magnum opus and completed it not long before his death.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 9 x 6", cloth backed boards, 485pp, bottom of spine bumped, extremities a tad worn, in a lightly rubbed and very lightly edge-worn dustjacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (full numberline), SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, EDWARD ABBEY, ON THE FRONT FLY.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine Book & Jacket, no Flaws, Signed 1st ed 1st pt in protective cover. Signed by Author(s).

VG/VG. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER BOOK HAS FAINT COLOR CHANGE DUE TO MOISTURE CONTACT ON THE UPPER FORE-EDGE CORNERS BUT THE BOOK IS OTHERWISE VERY NICE. D.J. ALSO SHOWS FAINT EVIDENCE OF THE DAMPING TO THE COVERS. A VERY NICE COPY. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Presentation inscription by author on free-front endpaper. No flaws evident. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing signed by Abbey. About very good condition with some wear to the base of the front two corners and some rubbing to the titles on the spine. The jacket is clipped. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A nice copy of Abbey's semi-autobiographical novel. Warmly inscribed on the front free endpaper by Abbey. The book has an ink line on the top of text block, very light wear to head and heel of spine. The dust jacket has a light rub along the area where the spine binding meets the yellow portiion of the boards, creating a ridge that has made a faint impression on the dust jacket. A small scuff mark near apine and light wear at head of spine. No chips or tears. None of these defects is very noticeable and this is a nice book anyone would be proud to have in their collection. All our books ship in a box, and ship free within the US. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Printing. Signed by the author. Fine in fine first issue dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).

hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First. A fine first edition in a fine dust jacket, signed by Edward Abbey on the title page. Abbey has.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy in a Fine jacket, not price-clipped. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Abbey on the front free endpaper "To _____ from his friend, Ed Abbey Oct '88." First State jacket, with "Mickey" on rear flap blurb. 485pp. Q10080.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. 485pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/2 blue cloth over yellow boards with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Offsetting to front endsheet and pastedown from laid in correspondence. Inscribed by Abbey on the half-title. Laid in are two letters from Abbey to the recipient, all three reply letters are on the foot and back of the letters received by Abbey. Two photographs laid in of the recipient at Wolf Hollow. Abbey has inscribed the reverse of one of the photographs Semi-autobiographical work about a man, who refuses to submit to modern commercial society, and walks from Arizona to West Virginia. Abbey considered this novel his "fat masterpiece." This was the last novel published in Abbey's lifetime. Edward Abbey (1927-1989) was a celebrated author, essayist, conservationist, noted pain-in-the-ass, and in many ways the father (or at the very least, uncle) of the modern environmental movements. Signed.