The Proud Highway - INSCRIBED -
Hunter S. Thompson
1997 - Villard, New York - First Edition
Volume I of ‘The Fear and Loathing Letters’ inscribed and signed by HST clearly in order to extract money and cigarettes from the recipient -
This is a Fair Trade For Fare to the airport… Plus your lighter and smokes –
That’s a Fair Fare!…
Shit I think You Come up Short!
I Will Need a ride back and more smokes! That’s Fair Fare Now!!! O.K.
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Price HK$ 18,000
1997 - Villard, New York - First Edition
Volume I of ‘The Fear and Loathing Letters’ inscribed and signed by HST clearly in order to extract money and cigarettes from the recipient -This is a Fair Trade For Fare to the airport… Plus your lighter and smokes –
That’s a Fair Fare!…
Shit I think You Come up Short!
I Will Need a ride back and more smokes! That’s Fair Fare Now!!! O.K.
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Price HK$ 18,000
Songs of the Doomed - INSCRIBED -
Hunter S. Thompson
1990 - Summit Books, New York - First Edition
Volume 3 of the ‘Gonzo Papers’ viciously and magnificently inscribed and violently signed by HST across the first page -
Staway from me
you PIG FUCKER
This is Not a Good Time
I STILL Have a Half Bottle
OK!!
This volume of the Gonzo Papers, charts ‘the long, strange trip from Kennedy to Quayle in Thompson's freewheeling, inimitable style. Spanning four decades – 1950 to 1990 – Thompson is at the top of his form while fleeing New York for Puerto Rico, riding with the Hell's Angels, investigating Las Vegas sleaze, grappling with the "Dukakis problem," and finally, detailing his infamous lifestyle bust, trial documents, and Fourth Amendment battle with the Law. These tales – often sleazy, brutal, and crude – are only the tip of what Jack Nicholson called "the most baffling human iceberg of our time”.’ [from the intro to a later edition].
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1990 - Summit Books, New York - First Edition
Volume 3 of the ‘Gonzo Papers’ viciously and magnificently inscribed and violently signed by HST across the first page -Staway from me
you PIG FUCKER
This is Not a Good Time
I STILL Have a Half Bottle
OK!!
This volume of the Gonzo Papers, charts ‘the long, strange trip from Kennedy to Quayle in Thompson's freewheeling, inimitable style. Spanning four decades – 1950 to 1990 – Thompson is at the top of his form while fleeing New York for Puerto Rico, riding with the Hell's Angels, investigating Las Vegas sleaze, grappling with the "Dukakis problem," and finally, detailing his infamous lifestyle bust, trial documents, and Fourth Amendment battle with the Law. These tales – often sleazy, brutal, and crude – are only the tip of what Jack Nicholson called "the most baffling human iceberg of our time”.’ [from the intro to a later edition].
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Open Letter San Francisco October 25, 1960 - SIGNED -
Hunter S. Thompson
1996 - White Fields Press, Kentucky - One of 118 copies signed by HST
Number 44 of 92 numbered examples of this large single sheet broadside reproducing Thompson’s iconic letter to San Francisco, it seems so much has changed but yet so little...
Initialled in large letters "H.S.T." by Thompson with a silver metallic pen in the margin next to his photograph. In fine condition, printed on glossy stock paper, measuring 66x34.5cm.
"At the end of 1960, Thompson and Semonin traveled cross-country together from New York to Seattle, and then hitchhiked down the coast to San Francisco, where Thompson settled. In a stream of consciousness letter dated 25 October 1960, Thompson writes from a bar in the Fillmore district, referring to himself as “Doctor Jazz”, who “prowls the foggy streets, seeking food. / O where is the jazz of yesteryear, the lost paycheck of my servile youth? where are the sacked liquor lockers of my Kempian days?…” Four days later he writes, “I commence walking my thumb toward Carmel & Big Sur…found slur on my ego…”
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1996 - White Fields Press, Kentucky - One of 118 copies signed by HST
Number 44 of 92 numbered examples of this large single sheet broadside reproducing Thompson’s iconic letter to San Francisco, it seems so much has changed but yet so little...Initialled in large letters "H.S.T." by Thompson with a silver metallic pen in the margin next to his photograph. In fine condition, printed on glossy stock paper, measuring 66x34.5cm.
"At the end of 1960, Thompson and Semonin traveled cross-country together from New York to Seattle, and then hitchhiked down the coast to San Francisco, where Thompson settled. In a stream of consciousness letter dated 25 October 1960, Thompson writes from a bar in the Fillmore district, referring to himself as “Doctor Jazz”, who “prowls the foggy streets, seeking food. / O where is the jazz of yesteryear, the lost paycheck of my servile youth? where are the sacked liquor lockers of my Kempian days?…” Four days later he writes, “I commence walking my thumb toward Carmel & Big Sur…found slur on my ego…”
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A Confederacy of Dunces -
John Kennedy Toole
1980 - Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge and London - First Edition, First Printing
‘I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.’
‘A masterwork... the novel astonishes with its inventiveness... it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.’ – NY Times
Ignatius J. Reilly is unforgettable.
A fine copy in clean sharp and bright dust jacket, designed by Ed Lindlof, that even Ignatius would have approved of, one of only 2,500 copies printed, and unlike this example they are usually found with creases, tears or restoration.
Toole committed suicide at 31, apparently after having failed to interest countless publishers in this magnificent masterpiece. The foreword is by Walker Percy, who recognised it’s brilliance and assisted in getting it published, after being forced into reading the enormous, smeared, carbon copy of the manuscript by Toole’s mother who found it in his bedroom. 11 years after the author’s death it was published, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
‘Employers sense in me a denial of their values... They fear me. I suspect that they can see that I am forced to function in a century I loathe. This was true even when I worked for the New Orleans Public Library.’
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1980 - Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge and London - First Edition, First Printing
‘I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.’‘A masterwork... the novel astonishes with its inventiveness... it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.’ – NY Times
Ignatius J. Reilly is unforgettable.
A fine copy in clean sharp and bright dust jacket, designed by Ed Lindlof, that even Ignatius would have approved of, one of only 2,500 copies printed, and unlike this example they are usually found with creases, tears or restoration.
Toole committed suicide at 31, apparently after having failed to interest countless publishers in this magnificent masterpiece. The foreword is by Walker Percy, who recognised it’s brilliance and assisted in getting it published, after being forced into reading the enormous, smeared, carbon copy of the manuscript by Toole’s mother who found it in his bedroom. 11 years after the author’s death it was published, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
‘Employers sense in me a denial of their values... They fear me. I suspect that they can see that I am forced to function in a century I loathe. This was true even when I worked for the New Orleans Public Library.’
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) -
Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens]
1885 - Charles L. Webster, New York - First Edition, first printing, in earliest state.
A finely bound first edition of a quintessential classic of 19th century American literature. Illustrated throughout. Following the classic 'boy's own' adventures of the promising young gent Tom Sawyer, Twain here attempts a more mature, somewhat darker picture of a less privileged American childhood on the mighty Mississippi. Regarded by many as a cornerstone of American literature, it confronts issues such as slavery in a sympathetic yet humorously sardonic tone which belonged to Twain alone.
‘We catched fish and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big, still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed—only a little kind of a low chuckle. We had mighty good weather as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all—that night, nor the next, nor the next.’
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1885 - Charles L. Webster, New York - First Edition, first printing, in earliest state.
A finely bound first edition of a quintessential classic of 19th century American literature. Illustrated throughout. Following the classic 'boy's own' adventures of the promising young gent Tom Sawyer, Twain here attempts a more mature, somewhat darker picture of a less privileged American childhood on the mighty Mississippi. Regarded by many as a cornerstone of American literature, it confronts issues such as slavery in a sympathetic yet humorously sardonic tone which belonged to Twain alone.‘We catched fish and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big, still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed—only a little kind of a low chuckle. We had mighty good weather as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all—that night, nor the next, nor the next.’
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