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"I always look ahead to the side but never back": First Edition of Hunter Thompson’s celebrated first book Hell’s Angels; Signed by Him and Sonny Barger
THOMPSON, HUNTER S. [SONNY BARGER].
Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs.
New York: Random House 1967.
First edition of Thompson’s first book. Octavo, original black cloth. Boldly signed by Hunter S. Thompson on the half-title page and additionally by Hell’s Angel Sonny Barger on the front free endpaper, “I always look ahead to the side but never back Sonny Barger.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket design by Joseph del Gaudio. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed by both Thompson and Barger.
Price: $12,800.00 Item Number: 112335
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First Edition of "this Cornerstone of American Political Journalism" Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72; Signed by Hunter S. Thompson, George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Gary Hart and Illustrator Ralph Steadman
THOMPSON, HUNTER S.; ILLUSTRATIONS BY RALPH STEADMAN .
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72.
San Francisco: Arrow Books 1973.
First edition of the author’s third book and hallmark of campaign journalism. Octavo, original black boards. Signed by Hunter Thompson on the half-title page and subjects, George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Gary Hart and illustrator, Ralph Steadman. Fine in a near fine first issue price-clipped dust jacket with the white boarder around the photograph of Thompson and McGovern on the rear panel. The book is notable for its introduction not only to the candidates of 1972 but also its early glimpses of future political leaders. Gary Hart of Colorado, who served as McGovern’s campaign manager and would later run for and win a seat in the United States Senate, and Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, who would himself capture the 1976 Democratic nomination and Presidency. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A unique example with this collection of signatures.
Price: $18,000.00 Item Number: 99428
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“I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real": First Edition of The Rum Diary; Signed by Hunter Thompson
THOMPSON, HUNTER S.
The Rum Diary.
New York: Simon & Schuster 1998.
First edition of Thompson’s only published novel. Octavo, original black half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Boldly signed by Hunter S. Thompson on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Perr.
Price: $700.00 Item Number: 90444
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"Tune in, freak out, get beaten": First Edition of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; Signed by Hunter S. Thompson and Ralph Steadman
THOMPSON, HUNTER S.; ILLUSTRATIONS BY RALPH STEADMAN.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream.
New York: Random House 1971.
First edition of Thompson’s second book. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Hunter S. Thompson and Ralph Steadman on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Illustrations by Ralph Steadman. An exceptional example.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 99345
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First Modern Library Edition of Hell's Angels; From the Librarian of Novelist Peter Matthiessen; Signed by Hunter S. Thompson
THOMPSON, HUNTER S. [PETER MATTHIESSEN].
Hell’s Angels.
New York: Modern Library 1999.
First Modern Library edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Hunter S. Thompson on the half title page. From the library of Peter Matthiessen, with some underlining in Matthiessen’s hand. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 5678