"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold..." And so it begins, a wild and whacky kaleidoscope of paranoia and horror, set in the early Nixon years. Fear and Loathing features Thompson's famous retrospective on the political failures of his generation known as the "wave speech". A very good first edition Illustrated by Ralph Steadman. A 1971 stated First Edition and First Printing with the number line from 9-8. 8vo. 206 pages - Original cloth-backed boards, pictorially stamped in blind, spine lettered in silver, in a near fine dust jacket illustrated by Ralph Steadman, designed by Susan Schwaab. Some rubbing to edges and spine tips of the price-clipped jacket; a bit of a spine leaning, slight bump to lower front corner, mild rubbing at extremities; Overall, very good in near fine jacket. 
 
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