The Fool's Progress (Signed By Edward Abbey)

New York; (1988): Henry Holt and Co. First Edition. Octavo. Item #022576

485pp. The story of Henry Holyoak Lightcap's uncertain advance through life, recounted during a 3500 mile journey from the arid wasteland of Tucson, Arizona, to the "green, fuzzy, mist-infested hills" of fictional Stump Creek, West Virginia with his dying dog Solstice in 1980. Abbey states " an Edward Abbey kind of novel." Nobody else could have written such a book. Bound in 1/4 dark blue cloth over yellow paper covered boards, spine lettering gilt, corners lightly bumped with lower right corner rubbed through, a good copy in near fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket with errors corrected.

Price: $165.00

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