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New York: Random House, 1971. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing. [x], 206 pp. Bound in publisher's gray blindstamped boards with black cloth backstrip, lettered in silver. Very Good with lean to binding, wear at corners and spine ends, faded upper and lower boards and light soiling to edges. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with toning, horizontal creasing to front panel and flap with foxing to verso. The first appearance in book form (following two 1971 issues of Rolling Stone) of Hunter S. Thompson's drugged-out travelogue to/rampage through Las Vegas, with its iconic splattered ink illustrations by Ralph Steadman. It inspired the 1998 Terry Gilliam film by the same name.

Ralph Steadman's iconic illustrations complement Hunter S. Thompson's infamous tale of bat country and the American Dream.