Open Letter San Francisco October 25, 1960 - SIGNED - Hunter S. Thompson 1996 - White Fields Press, Kentucky - One of 118 copies signed by HST Number 44 of 92 numbered examples of this large single sheet broadside reproducing Thompson’s iconic letter to San Francisco, it seems so much has changed but yet so little...

Initialled in large letters "H.S.T." by Thompson with a silver metallic pen in the margin next to his photograph. In fine condition, printed on glossy stock paper, measuring 66x34.5cm.

"At the end of 1960, Thompson and Semonin traveled cross-country together from New York to Seattle, and then hitchhiked down the coast to San Francisco, where Thompson settled. In a stream of consciousness letter dated 25 October 1960, Thompson writes from a bar in the Fillmore district, referring to himself as “Doctor Jazz”, who “prowls the foggy streets, seeking food. / O where is the jazz of yesteryear, the lost paycheck of my servile youth? where are the sacked liquor lockers of my Kempian days?…” Four days later he writes, “I commence walking my thumb toward Carmel & Big Sur…found slur on my ego…”
  Produced as a set of 118, with 26 copies lettered A-Z and 92 numbered 1 to 92.   Condition: Fine   Ref: 111539   Price: HK$ 12,000