[Abbey, Edward] [Stegner, Wallace]

Best-in-Books [Fire on the Mountain] [Wolf Willow]

Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, 1963. First Edition Thus. 603pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/2 red cloth over gray boards with titles on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Item #8227

Early reader's compilation that features Abbey's 'Fire on the Mountain' and an excerpt of Wallace Stegner's 'Wolf Willow'. The Abbey novel folows a New Mexico rancher, whose land is being condemned to construct an Air Force base. This work visits familiar Abbey themes of the lone man standing against power and a technological future. The other works in this compilation are 'The Windfall Child' by Louis Field Cooper - 'A Thousand Springs' by Anna Chennault - 'Is it Safe to Dreink the Water' (excerpt) by Art Buchwald. Colberg B70. Rare.

Price: $300.00