FIRST EDITION OF THE RUM DIARY: THE LONG LOST NOVEL, SIGNED BY HUNTER S. THOMPSON
THOMPSON, Hunter S. The Rum Diary. The Long Lost Novel. New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998). Octavo, original black paper boards, cartographic endpapers, original dust jacket. $1250.
First edition of Hunter S. Thompson's lost first novel, set in 1950s Puerto Rico, signed on the title page by him with his initials.
"The tools Hunter S. Thompson would use in the years ahead-bizarre wit, mockery without end, redundant excess, supreme self-confidence, the narrative of the wounded meritorious ego, and the idiopathic anger of the righteous outlaw—were all there in his precocious imagination in San Juan. There, too were the beginnings of his future as a masterful prose stylist" (William Kennedy). "Crackling, twisted, searing, paced to a deft prose rhythm… A shot of Gonzo with a rum chaser" (San Francisco Chronicle).
Fine condition.