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First Modern Library Edition/First Printing. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Fine book in a fine unclipped dust jacket. Signed and warmly inscribed by the author to his editor James Silberman, on the half title page:" To Jim Thanx for the Whiskey in NY- and the food at Elio's-and the books-and all the fat young boys in Cancun. Yr buddy HST/Hunter Nov. 13' 96 4 Seasons NYC". With the bookplate of James Silberman and Selma Shapiro Laid in.James Silberman was Random House Editor for Hell's Angels and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Thompson. This First Modern Library edition includes the 25th anniversary of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, with illustrations by Ralph Steadman, along with two additional stories from 1970 and 1971. The three stories first appeared in Magazine publications. Included is "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved" where Gonzo Journalism officially created and features the first meeting between Thompson and Steadman. A unique association copy with a fabulous inscription.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.