First edition/second printing book is tight with no markings, page edges have some soiling, board edges have some bumping and rubbing, dj has minor rubbing and edges have curling/creasing.
Stated First Edition. Villard indicates first printings by stating First Edition with number line starting with "2". Light wear. Dust jacket is clipped. Dust jacket in mylar. MC.
NY: Villard. As New in As New dust jacket. 1997. Stated First Edition. Second Printing. Hard Cover. 0679406956 . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, unmarked condition. AS NEW/AS NEW.. The Fear and Loathing Letters Series. Vol. 1. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 683, (2) pp .
THE PROUD HIGHWAY. The Fear & Loathing Letters Volume 1. Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman. Edited by Douglas Brinkley. Foreword by William J. Kennedy
Thompson, Hunter S.
THE PROUD HIGHWAY. The Fear & Loathing Letters Volume 1. Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman. Edited by Douglas Brinkley. Foreword by William J. Kennedy
New York: Villard, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in dust jacket. Nearly 700 pages of letters that begin with a high school essay (written in 1955), that takes us through 1967 (after the publication of Hell's Angels). HST's missiles pierce pomposity and rattle the soul. Whether written to his mother, Virginia, or to such luminaries as Charles Kuralt, Philip Graham, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, Carey McWilliams, Lyndon Johnson, and Joan Baez, the letters represent the evolution of a true American original, a singular voice defying an era of banality.
Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Villard Books, 1997. First Edition/First printing. Very Fine unread condition. Brodart protected. Ships in a box. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
New York:: Villard,, 1997.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondence of one of America's most influential and incisive journalists--Hunter S. Thompson. In letters to a Who's Who of luminaries from Norman Mailer to Charles Kuralt, Tom Wolfe to Lyndon Johnson, William Styron to Joan Baez--not to mention his mother, the NRA, and a chain of newspaper editors--Thompson vividly catches the tenor of the times in 1960s America and channels it all through his own razor-sharp perspective. Passionate in their admiration, merciless in their scorn, and never anything less than fascinating, the dispatches of The Proud Highway offer an unprecedented and penetrating gaze into the evolution of the most outrageous raconteur/provocateur ever to assault a typewriter.
Stated 1st, foreword by Wm. Kennedy. Nice cover photo of Hunter "on the road. " Has very minor handling or storage wear. Original bar code price still affixed to rear. Fine addition to Gonzo collection.
New York:: Villard,, 1997.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. Review Copy with review slip laid in. Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondence of one of America's most influential and incisive journalists--Hunter S. Thompson. In letters to a Who's Who of luminaries from Norman Mailer to Charles Kuralt, Tom Wolfe to Lyndon Johnson, William Styron to Joan Baez--not to mention his mother, the NRA, and a chain of newspaper editors--Thompson vividly catches the tenor of the times in 1960s America and channels it all through his own razor-sharp perspective. Passionate in their admiration, merciless in their scorn, and never anything less than fascinating, the dispatches of The Proud Highway offer an unprecedented and penetrating gaze into the evolution of the most outrageous raconteur/provocateur ever to assault a typewriter.
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