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Hunter S. Thompson. The Curse of Lono. Bantam, 1983.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A rare offering from the good doctor of gonzo journalism fame, describing a madcap, drug-fueled adventure in Hawaii. About an inch of the lower spine is chipped away; otherwise the book is in very good condition.
Seller: Polytropos Books, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Hunter S. Thompson. The Curse of Lono Hunter S. Thompson and Ralph Steadman. Bantam, 1983.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: used copy, spine broken, enhanced with book tape, tanning to pages, no markings, fast shipping
Seller: RUSH HOUR BUSINESS, worcester, MA, U.S.A.
Hunter S. Thompson. The Curse of Lono. Bantam, 1983.
Price: US$65.96 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Acceptable/Fair condition. Book is worn, but the pages are complete, and the text is legible. Has wear to binding and pages, may be ex-library.
Seller: Book Deals, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Hunter S. Thompson. The Curse of Lono. Bantam, 1983.
Price: US$65.96 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Buy with confidence! Book is in acceptable condition with wear to the pages, binding, and some marks within
Seller: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Hunter S. Thompson. The Curse of Lono. Bantam, 1983.
Price: US$66.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting.
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
Hunter S. Thompson. The Curse of Lono. Bantam, 1983.
Price: US$66.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting.
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
Thompson, Hunter S.. The Curse of Lono. Bantam Books, 1983.
Price: US$72.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light bumping visible to corners of covers and ends of spine strip. Light scuffing and smudging across covers and spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.85
Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$74.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Trade paperback (US). Audience: General/trade.
Seller: Lost Books, AUSTIN, TX, U.S.A.
Hunter S. Thompson. The Curse of Lono. Bantam, 1983.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Looks unread with just a touch of shelf wear Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Hunter S. Thompson; Ralph Steadman. The Curse of Lono. Bantam Books, 1983.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Front cover slightly scratched.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Thompson, Hunter S.. The Curse of Lono. Bantam Books, 1983.
Price: US$81.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Third printing. Faintly musty. 1983 Soft Cover. 158 pp. Color illustrations by Ralph Steadman throughout. The Curse of Lono is to Hawaii what Fear and Loathing was to Las Vegas: the crazy tales of a journalist's "coverage" of a news event that ends up being a wild ride to the dark side of Americana. Originally published in 1983, Curse features all of the zany, hallucinogenic wordplay and feral artwork for which the Hunter S. Thompson/Ralph Steadman duo have become known and loved. This curious book, considered an oddity among Hunter's oeuvre, has been long out of print, prompting collectors to search high and low for an original copy.
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Thompson, Hunter S.. The Curse of Lono. Bantam Books, 1983.
Price: US$83.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Covers show slight shelf wear and scuffing. Binding is sound; no writing or other markings. No tears to covers or pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.85
Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.
Thompson, Hunter S. , and Ralph Steadman. The Curse of Lono. Bantam Books, New York, 1983.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book is in excellent condition. Dated November, 1983, 1st Printing. ; Color Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 158 pages
Seller: Bookshelf of Maine, Franklin, ME, U.S.A.
Hunter S. Thompson. The Curse of Lono. Bantam, 1983.
Price: US$99.03 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 100% Customer Satisfaction Guaranteed ! The book shows some signs of wear from use but is a good readable copy. Cover in excellent condition. Binding tight. Pages in great shape, no tears. Not contain access codes, cd, DVD.
Seller: Pieuler Store, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Hunter S. Thompson. The Curse of Lono. Bantam, 1983.
Price: US$99.92 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good condition. This is the average used book, that has all pages or leaves present, but may include writing. Book may be ex-library with stamps and stickers.
Seller: Book Deals, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Hunter S. Thompson. The Curse of Lono. Brand: Bantam, 1983.
Price: US$105.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Trade paperback (US). Audience: General/trade.
Seller: Lost Books, AUSTIN, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very light edgewear; a few barely perceptible surface scratches, else an excellent copy.
Seller: Great Books&Cafe @ The Williamsford Mill, Williamsford, ON, Canada
Thompson, Hunter S. & Ralph Steadman. The Curse of Lono. NY: Bantam, 1983.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near Fine trade paperback (very small, approx. 1/8" wide, chip to outer laminate covering of lower spine). A nice copy - clean text, tight binding, and clean and bright covers. First Edition, First Printing (with # row on copyright page ending in # 1). Illustrated with color and b/w illustrations by Ralph Steadman. The true first edition, first printing of this title, a paperback original, as the book never appeared in hardcover until a hardcover limited edition was published 23 years after the publication of this paperback first printing. 160pp.
Seller: Peter Lenz Bookseller, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.
Thompson, Hunter S.; Ralph Steadman. The Curse of Lono. Bantam Books, New York, 1983.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Steadman, Ralph. First edition, first printing. Illustrated by Ralph Steadman. [ii], 158 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Illustrated wrappers. A near fine copy Illustrated by Ralph Steadman. [ii], 158 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Thompson, Hunter S.. The Curse of Lono. Illustrated by Ralph Steadman.. Bantam Books, 1983.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A Fine copy in glossy illustrated paperback binding. This is the true first edition of this paperback original. The Curse of Lono is to Hawaii what Fear and Loathing was to Las Vegas: a journalist s news event "coverage" that ends up an unclassifiable twist of fiction and reportage, myth and crazed surrealism. Featuring all of the zany, hallucinogenic wordplay and feral artwork for which the Hunter S. Thompson/Ralph Steadman duo became known and loved, the book was at once their exemplary and most eccentric output.
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Thompson, Hunter S.. The Curse of Lono. Bantam Books, New York, 1983.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed (without inscription) by the illustrator, Ralph Steadman on the first page. Very Good. Upper corners of paper cover with short crease. Unmarked but for illustrator's signature. 160 pages.
Seller: Brazos Bend Books, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Thompson, Hunter S.. The Curse of Lono. Bantam Books, Toronto, 1983.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The format is approximately 7 inches by 10 inches. 158, [2] pages. Illustrated cover. Illustrations (some in color). Minor front cover weakness at spine (gently restrengthened with glue). Name of previous owner (John Schwab) in ink on half-title page. Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 - February 20, 2005) was a journalist and author who founded the gonzo journalism movement. He rose to prominence with the publication of Hell's Angels, a book for which he spent a year living and riding with the Hells Angels motorcycle club to write a first-hand account of their lives and experiences. In 1970, he wrote an unconventional magazine feature titled "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved" for Scanlan's Monthly, which established his counterculture credibility. It also set him on the path to establishing his own subgenre of New Journalism that he called "Gonzo", a journalistic style in which the writer becomes a central figure and participant in the events of the narrative. Thompson remains best known for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, a book first serialized in Rolling Stone in which he grapples with the implications of what he considered the failure of the 1960s counterculture movement. In 1980, Thompson relocated to Hawaii to research and write The Curse of Lono, a Gonzo-style account of the 1980 Honolulu Marathon. Extensively illustrated by Ralph Steadman, the piece first appeared in Running in 1981 as "The Charge of the Weird Brigade" and was later excerpted in Playboy in 1983. The book was reprinted in 2005 in a signed, limited edition, then more widely re-released in 2014. Ralph Idris Steadman (born 15 May 1936) is a British illustrator best known for his collaboration with the American writer Hunter S. Thompson. Steadman is renowned for his political and social caricatures, cartoons and picture books. He was voted Illustrator of the Year by the American Institute of Graphic Arts in 1979. The Curse of Lono is to Hawaii what Fear and Loathing was to Las Vegas: the crazy tales of a journalist's "coverage" of a news event that ends up being a wild ride to the dark side of Americana. Curse features all of the zany, hallucinogenic wordplay and feral artwork for which the Hunter S. Thompson/Ralph Steadman duo have become known and loved. This curious book, considered a rarity among Hunter's oeuvre, prompting collectors to search high and low for an original copy such as this is. The Curse of Lono is a book by Hunter S. Thompson describing his experiences in Hawaii in 1980. Originally published in 1983, the book was only in print for a short while. Hunter S. Thompson receives a letter from the editor of Running magazine, asking him to cover the 1980 Honolulu Marathon, which the editor says should be "a good chance for a vacation". Thompson asks the illustrator Ralph Steadman to accompany him. On the flight over, he meets a man named Ackerman, who seems to have connections to the drug trade in Hawaii. Thompson covers the marathon with his characteristic gonzo style, weaving his own experiences into the coverage of the story. After the marathon, Thompson along with Steadman and his family move to a rented beach side compound on Hawaii's Kona coast. The weather is miserable and they are trapped indoors, besieged by huge waves. Steadman and his family, upset about the terrible conditions of their vacation, return to England. Later, Thompson reunites with Ackerman to go fishing. Thompson eventually catches a huge Marlin, which he beats to death with a Samoan war club. The fishing boat returns to the dock, with Thompson screaming triumphantly, "I am Lono!", referring to the ancient Hawaiian god which upsets the locals, and he goes into hiding in the City of Refuge. It is possible that this copy was owned by the renowned member of the rock band McGuffey Lane, one of the most popular and successful bands to come out of Ohio, which was still playing in 2022, nearly a half century after it was formed.
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$2950.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Stated at copyright: A Bantam Book/November, 1983; number-line beginning w/6. Signed by Dr. Hunter S. Thompson at half-title page: "H. S. T." with what appears to be some additional doodles, symbology, of possibly arrow pointing to heart around palms, etc. Includes original ticket and envelope for appearance on Friday, September 21, 1990 at Zellerbach Auditorium on the U. C. Berkeley campus. White pictorial wraps, some shelf, corner wear. Front, back wraps feature several Steadman illustrations of 'Lono's Marlin Mask'. Large 7" x 10" design. Pages good; moderate discoloration. Vintage inscription inside cover: "Merry Christmas '88, Dave". Bind fine. Profusely illustated in black and white and blazing color by Ralph Steadman. Near good signed example of this uniquely signed rarity. Hunter Thompson, the king of Gonzo returns in The Curse of LONO when a seemingly absurd assignment is proposed by 'Running' magazine to cover the Honolulu Marathon. A hilarious, brain-curdling south Sea adventure ensues, the story of HST's epic escapades in Hawai'i. Weird tales from a Weird World by the quintessential outlaw journalist and best-selling author. The Curse of Lono is to Hawaii what Fear and Loathing was to Las Vegas: the crazy tales of a journalist's 'coverage' of a news event that ends up being a wild ride to the dark side of Americana. Originally published in 1983, Curse features all of the zany, hallucinogenic wordplay and feral artwork for which the Hunter S. Thompson and Ralph Steadman duo have become known and loved. This curious book featuring marathon reportage and big game fishing, is considered rather an oddity among Hunter's oeuvre. Includes vignettes by such icons as Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, and Ralph Emerson along with Steadman's slight doctoring of several more classical illustrations. 160 pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Description: Steadman, Ralph. First edition, first printing. [ii] 158 pp. 8vo. Signed by Ralph Steadman. Illustrated wrappers with original price sticker on verso but overall near fine. Signed on half title and painted on cover by Ralph Steadman
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Thompson, Hunter S.; Steadman, Ralph [Illustrator]. The Curse of Lono. Bantam Books, New York, 1983.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. An association copy signed by Hunter S. Thompson on the half-title page using his nickname "Flood" and inscribed to his neighbor and close friend for decades, Monty, "To the Admral for reasons that need not be disguised at this time. [signed] Flood / Owl Farm 1/25/84." At the top of the half-title page also inscribed by Monty, "New Year 1984 / It could be worse. / Jah Knows. / Pissgums." Monty was referred to by the nickname "Captain Pissgums" by Hunter S. Thompson and his friends. Laid in is a menu for luncheon and dinner dishes to be served at Monty's on Friday, August 19th, 2005, the day before HST's ashes were to be fired from a canon in a lavish, private funeral ceremony funded by actor Johnny Depp. Bound in publisher's original printed wraps. Near Fine with toning, light soiling and light wear to spine and extremities, short split at bottom of front spine joint. Tales of drugs, marathon running, real estate, greed, and fishing in the Aloha state from the legendary gonzo journalist, beautifully illustrated in vibrant color by his artistic collaborator on Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, signed and inscribed to a close friend shortly after publication.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.