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New York: Random House, 1971. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Signed by Hunter S. Thompson in initials on a illustrated preliminary page; with a ticket stub from an event with Thompson at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA laid in. Bound in publisher's black cloth spine over black paper covered boards decorated in blind, with titles in silver on the spine. Very Good with lean to binding, wear at corners, top and bottom edges of boards sunned with faint staining along top edge. Foxing to top textblock edge and stain to fore edge protruding into several pages, light sporadic soiling to pages. In a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with general wear, light staining and toning, creases to flaps. Thompson's vivid and wild journey, which seems inseparable from Steadman's iconic, perfectly paired illustrations; signed by Thompson.

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.

A possible indicator for identifying a first edition, first printing, is the absence of additional printings listed on the copyright page, sometimes noted by a number line with '1' present.