The Sixties Catalogue

T h e S I X T I E S 70 “Weird Flotsam On The Rising Tide, Giant Boppers, Wild Ones, Motorcycle Outlaws” 68. THOMPSON, Hunter S. Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga. New York, 1967. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $1600. Click for more info First edition, first printing, of Hunter S. Thompson’s first book, an electrifying tale of the infamous biker gangs of California. Thompson “made his mark in the mid-1960s with an assignment for The Nation, covering a Hell’s Angel motorcycle group, later published as Hell’s Angels , in which he developed what he calls ‘gonzo journalism’” (Stringer, 666). First- printing dust jacket , with front flap containing price of $4.95, code “1/67” at lower edge. Book fine, dust jacket near-fine with only light rubbing to extremities. “The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.”