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New York: Random House, 1971. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by both Hunter S. Thompson and Ralph Steadman on the title page. Bound in publisher's black cloth spine over black paper covered boards decorated in blind, with titles in silver on the spine. Near Fine with light lean to binding, fading to edges, former owner inked notations to preliminary, terminal pages and to several textual pages throughout. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear and light tanning. A drugged-out mixture of travel writing, journalism and literature set to boil against the desert heat. A lovely copy of Thompson's vivid and wild journey, which seems inseparable from Steadman's iconic, perfectly paired illustrations; uncommon signed by Thompson and Steadman.

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.