Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas **RARE 1998 FIRST MODERN LIBRARY MOVIE TIE-IN EDITION WITH DUST JACKET IN PRISTINE CONDITION PLUS EXTRA MOVIE POSTCARD PROMO**

Thompson, Hunter S.; Ralph Steadman (Illustrations)

ISBN 10: 0679602984 / ISBN 13: 9780679602989

Published by The Modern Library, New York, 1998

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**RARE 1998 FIRST MODERN LIBRARY MOVIE TIE-IN EDITION WITH DUST JACKET IN PRISTINE CONDTION PLUS EXTRA MOVIE POSTCARD PROMO** 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. The book is bound in grey cloth type 17 binding with torchbearer end papers and a great photographic dust jacket. Also included is a BEAUTIFUL POSTCARD PROMO FOR THE MOVIE AND BOOK TIE-IN. Book is AS NEW and PRISTINE with binding solid and tight with gilt bright and nice, no writing or marks, 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. RARE TO FIND THIS 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 # 000803

Bibliographic Details

Title: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas **RARE 1998 ...

Publisher: The Modern Library, New York

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Steadman, Ralph

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: As New

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

The 50th-anniversary edition of the classic, savagely comic account of a trip to Las Vegas that came to represent what happened to America in the 1960s--and a founding document of "gonzo journalism"--featuring the original artwork by Ralph Steadman and a new introduction by Caity Weaver

First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is told through Hunter S. Thompson's story 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 50th-anniversary Modern Library edition features Ralph Steadman's original drawings, a new introduction by New York Times writer Caity Weaver, and three companion pieces selected by Thompson: "Jacket Copy for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," "Strange Rumblings in Aztlan," and "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved."

About the Author:

Hunter S. Thompson was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1937 and died in Colorado in 2005. He contributed regularly to a wide variety of publications but is probably best known for his work as national-affairs correspondent for Rolling Stone, in which Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 originally appeared. He originated "gonzo journalism," in which the reporter is a part of the story. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was made into a major motion picture, directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Johnny Depp.