The Fool's Progress (An Honest Novel)
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1988. 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. Item #10455
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.
Price: $1,500.00