Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream -
Hunter S. Thompson, Ralph Steadman (illustrator)
1972 - Random House, New York - First Edition
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.
‘..a scorching epochal sensation. There are only two adjectives writers care about any more…. “brilliant” and “outrageous” … and Hunter Thompson has a free hold on both of them.’ - Tom Wolfe.
An unusually bright sharp copy, naturally enhanced with Ralph Steadman’s equally savage illustrations. BAD CRAZINESS - On August 20, 2005, in a private ceremony in Aspen, Colorado, Thompson's ashes were fired from a cannon atop a 153-foot tower of his own design (in the shape of a double-thumbed fist clutching a peyote button) to the tune of Bob Dylan’s Mr. Tambourine Man.
First edition with copyright page stating ‘First Edition’ and showing correct number line ‘97532468’. Serialised in ROlling Stone Magazine in 1971, and then polished (?) and presented here in book form in 1972.
Provenance: Owner’s inscription Jim Cullahan to front free endpaper.
Octavo (book size 21.5x14.5cm), pp. [12] 206 [6]. In th epublisher’s black cloth spine over grey paper boards, silver lettering and publisher’s logo to spine, upper board with Steadman sketch of HST stamped in blind. Dust jacket priced $5.95 to upper corner of front flap, and with ‘6/72’ to lower corner of rear flap. Condition: Very good, a little toning to the board edges, some minor marks to edge of text block, in near fine dust jacket, vivd red lettering to spine, some wear to corners, top edge with minor toning. Ref: 112714 Price: HK$ 15,000
‘..a scorching epochal sensation. There are only two adjectives writers care about any more…. “brilliant” and “outrageous” … and Hunter Thompson has a free hold on both of them.’ - Tom Wolfe.
An unusually bright sharp copy, naturally enhanced with Ralph Steadman’s equally savage illustrations. BAD CRAZINESS - On August 20, 2005, in a private ceremony in Aspen, Colorado, Thompson's ashes were fired from a cannon atop a 153-foot tower of his own design (in the shape of a double-thumbed fist clutching a peyote button) to the tune of Bob Dylan’s Mr. Tambourine Man.
First edition with copyright page stating ‘First Edition’ and showing correct number line ‘97532468’. Serialised in ROlling Stone Magazine in 1971, and then polished (?) and presented here in book form in 1972.
Provenance: Owner’s inscription Jim Cullahan to front free endpaper.
Octavo (book size 21.5x14.5cm), pp. [12] 206 [6]. In th epublisher’s black cloth spine over grey paper boards, silver lettering and publisher’s logo to spine, upper board with Steadman sketch of HST stamped in blind. Dust jacket priced $5.95 to upper corner of front flap, and with ‘6/72’ to lower corner of rear flap. Condition: Very good, a little toning to the board edges, some minor marks to edge of text block, in near fine dust jacket, vivd red lettering to spine, some wear to corners, top edge with minor toning. Ref: 112714 Price: HK$ 15,000