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New York: Villard (Random House), 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition, first printing, with number line down to '2' per Random House custom. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xxxii, 683pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Gray paper over boards with spine backed in black and lettered in red. Surface paper loss to front cover. Gentle bumps to corners. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm, sound, and square. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondence of one of America's most influential and incisive journalists--Hunter S. Thompson. In letters to a Who's Who of luminaries from Norman Mailer to Charles Kuralt, Tom Wolfe to Lyndon Johnson, William Styron to Joan Baez--not to mention his mother, the NRA, and a chain of newspaper editors--Thompson vividly catches the tenor of the times in…
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