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Steadman, Ralph / Thompson, Hunter S.:. The curse of Lono.. Taschen Vlg., Köln 2005., 2005.
Price: US$110.49 + shipping
Description: Gewicht 2.5 Kilo, gr.4°, Umschlag, fester Kartoneinband, ca. 208 St. kleiner Besitzerstempel auf Schmutztitel, Einband minim berieben, sonst schön
Seller: Cassiodor Antiquariat, Gauting, Germany
THOMPSON, Hunter S.; Ralph Steadman (illus). The Curse of Lono. Taschen, Koln & Los Angeles, 2005.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: First printing; trade issue. Folio. 38cm x 29cm. Publisher's white paper covered boards; dustjacket; 205pp. Titled in black to spine and front board, with the front in Steadman's signature ink spattered style. Clean and bright, bumped to bottom board corners, in a clean and very bright example of the dustjacket. Were it not for the bumping, a fine copy, as it is; a very good, clean copy indeed. A visually extremely impressive re-issue of HST's 1983 original, with all of Steadman's frothing, unrestrained artistic energy thrashing around Thompson's text whilst the two of them attempt to rampage around Hawaii in the way HST did Las Vegas, finding as always that with Hunter S. Thompson it isn't the place, it isn't the time, and it isn't the social climate, it's just him, witnessing the world in a way it is never going to be comfortable with. Published in the year of his death, this publication ended up being something of a memorial to a legendary creative partnership.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2254.46 + shipping
Description: [Original artwork] FIRST EDITION THUS, trade issue, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, with superb ORIGINAL PAINTING. Folio (39 x 30cm), pp.208. With numerous fantastical colour illustrations by Steadman, many double-paged. Publisher's white hardcovers screen-printed in black, colour-illustrated dust-jacket. To the half-title is a most personal painted caricature of author Hunter S. Thompson, dated 2006, in trademark blood red ink with flamboyant splashes, some of which are offset to the jacket. Both letters 'O' from the printed 'LONO' have been used to form the lenses of the good Doctor's trademark specs, depicted in typical style with cigarette and Lake Bucket hat. A fine copy. Originally published in a quarto format in 1983, this new folio edition features striking full-colour illustrations from Thompson's long-time friend and collaborator Ralph Steadman. Thompson died a month before this lavish book was published; Steadman's portraits of the author are scarce and desirable.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom