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FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS A SAVAGE JOURNEY TO THE HEART OF THE AMERICAN DREAM
by [Counterculture Icon]. THOMPSON, Hunter S., and Ralph Steadman [illus]
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- first
- Condition
- Very good / good
- Seller
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1971. First edition, first impression. Very good / good. Octavo. Black cloth and grey embossed boards. First edition, first impression. 206 pp. Lavishly illustrated throughout by Ralph Steadman. Shelf wear on lower edge, sunning to top edge as often seen, a few instances of spot soiling in text and fore-edge, else very good; dust jacket toned at upper edge with some flaring to top and bottom, closed cut through upper edge of spine, a credo written on the verso, else a good unclipped copy.
From the extensive collection of a San Francisco collector, started in the 1970s and held for over fifty years in their personal library.
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From the extensive collection of a San Francisco collector, started in the 1970s and held for over fifty years in their personal library.
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- Bookseller
- Second Wind Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 506
- Title
- FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS A SAVAGE JOURNEY TO THE HEART OF THE AMERICAN DREAM
- Author
- [Counterculture Icon]. THOMPSON, Hunter S., and Ralph Steadman [illus]
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good / good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first impression
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- Drug culture, 1970s, counter-culture, iconic
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Second Wind Books LLC
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About Second Wind Books LLC
Second Wind Books is committed to offering important British and American first editions in the Modernist vein, with an emphasis on books about books, books by and about women and adjacent admirers. Literature, poetry, small and fine press, letters and manuscripts, original artwork, photographs, are what interests us most. Our founder began bookselling under the tutelage of a truly great bookman in 2006, and is now offering that learned expertise in her own shop. Interested in offers of literature from 1900 to 1950, either for sale or to evaluate.
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- Shelf Wear
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Spine
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- Octavo
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