It evolved into a lavish, full-color photographic calendar with Abbey quotations, The Edward Abbey Western Wilderness Calendar, which I would go on to publish for the next ten years. The “silly calendar” Ed referenced came from an idea to publish a literary calendar devoted to Abbey’s works. He said we could talk about my ”silly” calendar, if I wished. In the spring of 1981, Ed called me on the telephone and invited me to what he referred to as some kind of “spring rites” down at Glen Canyon Dam (n), at a place called Lone Rock on the shores of Lake (reservoir) Powell. I had founded my publishing company, Dream Garden Press, that same year and was eager to do an Edward Abbey publishing project. In spite of this, shall we say, awkward, clueless beginning, Ed Abbey and I became friends and would have many adventures together in what would become the last decade and a half of his life.īy 1980, I was bugging Ed about publishing projects. I led him into my back room, my rare book room, and asked him to sign copies of first editions of his books, all the while lecturing him on the atrocious (to my mind) habit of Hayduke and Co., in MWG, of littering beer cans up and down western highways. Abbey was still living in Moab at the time and happened to wander into the backroom of the Cosmic. I had devoured them both and would go on to meet their author at my old Cosmic Aeroplane bookstore in SLC, not long after the publication of MWG.
Both Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang have gone on to become classics in their field, a term Ed always dreaded, and have gone on to sell millions of copies. By 1975, his 4th novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang, came out.
His fourth book, a work of nonfiction essays, was published six years later in 1968. The late author Edward Abbey published his first three novels in the span of eight years, from 1954-1962.
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