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Author: Thompson, Hunter S.
Title: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Random House
Date Published: [1971]
Description: Illustrated by Ralph Steadman. Original cloth-backed boards, pictorially stamped in blind, spine lettered in silver, jacket illustrated by Ralph Steadman, designed by Susan Schwaab. First Edition.“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold...“ So begins the foundational text of Gonzo journalism, a kaleidoscope of paranoia and horror, set in the early Nixon years. The book features his famous retrospective on the political failures of his generation known as the “wave speech“.
Author: Thompson, Hunter S.
Title: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Random House
Date Published: [1971]
Description: Illustrated by Ralph Steadman. Original cloth-backed boards, pictorially stamped in blind, spine lettered in silver, jacket illustrated by Ralph Steadman, designed by Susan Schwaab. First Edition.“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold...“ So begins the foundational text of Gonzo journalism, a kaleidoscope of paranoia and horror, set in the early Nixon years. The book features his famous retrospective on the political failures of his generation known as the “wave speech“.
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Some rubbing to edges of price-clipped jacket; spine leaning, slight bump to lower front corner, mild rubbing at extremities; very good in near fine jacket.
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First Edition, illustrated by Ralph Steadman
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