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. Mild edge wear, particular to spine with shelf and handling wear to jacket. A few tiny edge tears. Protected in archival mylar. Book is square and firm. Page edges vintage toned, particular to top text block. Light edge wear, particular curling to spine ends. Corners faintly curled. Interior is clean and unmarked.

Dust Jacket: Very Good

Hardcover: Very Good

“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.”