Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas **SIGNED BY HUNTER S. THOMPSON RARE 1998 FIRST MODERN LIBRARY MOVIE TIE-IN EDITION WITH DUST JACKET IN PRISTINE CONDITION**

Thompson, Hunter S.; Ralph Steadman (Illustrations)

ISBN 10: 0679602984 / ISBN 13: 9780679602989

Published by The Modern Library, New York, 1998

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**SIGNED BY HUNTER S. THOMPSON RARE 1998 FIRST MODERN LIBRARY MOVIE TIE-IN EDITION WITH DUST JACKET IN PRISTINE CONDTION** Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson with amazing illustrations by Ralph Steadman. First Printing of the Movie tie-in edition 1998 with full number line on the copyright page. SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE by HUNTER S. THOMPSON on a neat book plate pasted down on the title page. The book is bound in grey cloth type 17 binding with torchbearer end papers and a great photographic dust jacket. Book is AS NEW and PRISTINE with binding solid and tight with gilt bright and nice, no writing or marks other than the signature on title page, contents are clean and bright. GORGEOUS!! The dust jacket is AS NEW and PRISTINE. It is very bright and clean with an amazing graphic on the cover. $16.00 price present and perfect on inside flap. Now protected in an archival-quality dust jacket protector. EXTREMELY RARE TO FIND THIS SIGNED FIRST EDITION WITH A DUST JACKET IN THIS CONDITION! **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**. Seller Inventory # 000801

Bibliographic Details

Title: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas **SIGNED BY ...

Publisher: The Modern Library, New York

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Steadman, Ralph

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: As New

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is Hunter S. Thompson's savagely comic account of what happened to this country in the 1960s. It is told through the writer's account of an assignment he undertook with his attorney to visit Las Vegas and "check it out." The book stands as the final word on the highs and lows of that decade, one of the defining works of our time, and a stylistic and journalistic tour de force. As Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote in The New York Times, it has "a kind of mad, corrosive prose poetry that picks up where Norman Mailer's An American Dream left off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out."
        This Modern Library edition features Ralph Steadman's original drawings and three companion pieces selected by Dr. Thompson: "Jacket Copy for Fear and Loath-
ing in Las Vegas," "Strange Rumblings in Aztlan," and "The Kentucky Derby Is Deca-
dent and Depraved."

Review:

Dr. Thompson made the list of inspirational scribes when I polled in a recent writing workshop, and why not? Back in a spiffy Modern Library edition, replete with additional essays, I find in this iconographic work that HST both invoked--and provoked--an era that was not so much the '60s proper, but rather the mean, shadow-filled death of that time, which is still playing out. Thank God Thompson was there to explode the myth of "objective" journalism and help pave the way for the pens and voices that followed.