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New York: Random House, 1971. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's gray blindstamped boards with black cloth backstrip, lettered in silver. Near Fine with sunning to edges, slight bumping to lower corners; binding square and firm. In Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with fading to spine, light soiling and toning, and two small creases to rear flap. 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.