BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 22 “A King-Hell Bitch Of A Year” 26THOMPSON, Hunter S. Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ‘72. San Francisco, 1973. Octavo, original black boards, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $11,000 First edition, in first-issue dust jacket, of Thompson’s “bizarrely irreverent” account of the 1972 presidential campaign. Boldly signed by Thompson and inscribed by the illustrator in bright red ink, “Erik from Ralph Steadman 24.10.92.” Thompson first reached a wide audience with this, his third book. Thompson’s coverage of the NixonMcGovern 1972 presidential campaign “forced mainstream news organizations to take notice. That year, some of his most acerbic lines were quoted in publications like Newsweek and The New York Times” (New York Times). Book about-fine, dust jacket extremely good with light wear to extremities. “We Were Somewhere Around Barstow On The Edge Of The Desert When The Drugs Began To Take Hold” 27THOMPSON, Hunter S. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. New York, 1971. Octavo, original half-black cloth, dust jacket. $2000 First edition of Thompson’s landmark picaresque journey into the American dream. “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas… cemented Thompson’s place as a singular presence in American journalism or, as he once called himself, ‘a connoisseur of edge work’” (New York Times). Thompson’s second book, the embodiment of Gonzo journalism, “is a custom-crafted study of paranoia, a spew from the 1960s and—in all its hysteria, insolence, insult, and rot—a desperate and important book, a wired nightmare, the funniest piece of American prose since Naked Lunch” (Books of the Century, 27880). In 1998, Terry Gilliam directed the film version, starring Johnny Depp. With in-text illustrations by Ralph Steadman. Very slight toning to book edges and light spotting to upper text block edge; dust jacket vibrant. A nearly fine copy.
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