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The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
by Thompson, Hunter S
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good/Very good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Rolling Stone Press / Summit Books, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. An extensive collection of HST's gonzo journalism, collected from Rolling Stone magazine, the National Observer, the New York Times Magazine, and other publications.
602 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Some foxing to the edges of the page block; minor shelfwear to the jacket edges. This copy has a full-page inscription by Thompson, "To Tony-Happy Birthday & thanx for the whiskey...see you in Idaho Springs. Be careful, yr. friend H. S. Thompson. San Francisco, July 19, 84." The book is housed in an attractive black cloth clamshell box with a morocco spine label made by Dragonfly Bindery.
602 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Some foxing to the edges of the page block; minor shelfwear to the jacket edges. This copy has a full-page inscription by Thompson, "To Tony-Happy Birthday & thanx for the whiskey...see you in Idaho Springs. Be careful, yr. friend H. S. Thompson. San Francisco, July 19, 84." The book is housed in an attractive black cloth clamshell box with a morocco spine label made by Dragonfly Bindery.
Synopsis
The Great Shark Hunt is a book by Hunter S. Thompson. Originally published in 1979 as Gonzo Papers, Vol. 1: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time, the book is a roughly 600-page collection of Thompson's essays from 1956 to the end of the 1970s, following the rise of the author's own gonzo journalism style as he moved from Air Force and sports beat-writing to straight-ahead political commentary. It is the first of four volumes in the Gonzo Papers series.
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- Bookseller
- Downtown Brown Books, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 75685
- Title
- The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
- Author
- Thompson, Hunter S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Rolling Stone Press / Summit Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- list106
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION; Counter Culture;
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