![]() In spite of this, shall we say, awkward, clueless beginning, Ed Abbey and I became friends and would have many adventures together in what would become the last decade and a half of his life.īy 1980, I was bugging Ed about publishing projects. I led him into my back room, my rare book room, and asked him to sign copies of first editions of his books, all the while lecturing him on the atrocious (to my mind) habit of Hayduke and Co., in MWG, of littering beer cans up and down western highways. Abbey was still living in Moab at the time and happened to wander into the backroom of the Cosmic. ![]() I had devoured them both and would go on to meet their author at my old Cosmic Aeroplane bookstore in SLC, not long after the publication of MWG. ![]() Both Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang have gone on to become classics in their field, a term Ed always dreaded, and have gone on to sell millions of copies. By 1975, his 4th novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang, came out. His fourth book, a work of nonfiction essays, was published six years later in 1968. The late author Edward Abbey published his first three novels in the span of eight years, from 1954-1962. ![]()
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