New York: Lippincott, (1975). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 352 pp. Original quarter red cloth over charcoal paper-covered boards, stamped in silver, in original unclipped ($8.95) dust-jacket. Edge wear with chips, fray, wrinkling and handling to jacket. Some smudges to panels and sticker ghosting to spine. Protected in archival mylar. Book shows wear. Hinges loose, rear hinge exposed. Light toning to page edges. Faded stamp to bottom text block. A few small nicks to panels and edges. Handling wear to edges with smudges to panels, a few soil droplets. Spine mildly cocked. Ex-library book with stamps to endpapers, pocket to rfep. Previous owner’s name to pre-title page.

Dust Jacket: Good

Hardcover: Acceptable

“Abbey's most famous work of fiction, the novel concerns the use of sabotage to protest environmentally damaging activities in the Southwestern United States, and was so influential that the term "monkeywrench," often used as a verb, has come to mean, besides sabotage and damage to machines, any sabotage, activism, law-making, or law-breaking to preserve wilderness, wild spaces and ecosystems.The Monkey Wrench Gang inspired environmentalist David Foreman to help create Earth First! a direct action environmental organization that often advocates much of the minor vandalism depicted in the book.”