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Hell's Angels
by Thompson, Hunter S
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued
- ISBN 10
- 0140028013
- ISBN 13
- 9780140028010
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Penguin Books. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. (1967). Softcover. 0140028013 . Previous owner's name and address on inside of rear cover. Some creasing to spine.; Reprint. Copyright date 1967. 284, [2 (blank)], [2 (advertisements)] pages. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 197 x 127mm. "Press reports of the Angels read like the plot synopsis of a thriller writer's worst dreams. Hunter S. Thompson found the reality different, but still disturbing. Here, with Rabelaisian gusto, he tells of his experiences with Little Jesus, Charger Charley the Child Molester, Big Frank ('You don't really jerk out the eyeball, you just sorta spring it so it pops outa the socket') and a host of others. This is the inner truth of a phenomenon that relegates our Rockers to the nursery." - from blurb on rear cover. .
Synopsis
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Reviews
On Jan 13 2017, a reader said:
I made a trip to Manhattan to purchase this book at a used book store on Broadway and 13th Street. I had searched high and low to find it. I was not disappointed. Though I purchased the book for about $7 or $8 it is now worth over $700, but I will never part with it. It is an inside look at what it is like to ride with the Hells Angels back in the 60s. That has always been my dream, both asleep and awake. The part I remembered most about the book was Hunter Thompson telling one of the Angels that only a coward would hit his wife. This triggered an attack upon Thompson, which ultimately ended his saga with the group. I remember that the book itself took me about 2 or 3 days to read. Once you pick it up, you cannot put it down. Of all the books I have ever read, it is up there with Dale Carnegie's "How To Stop Worrying and Start Living" and "Alive" the story of the Andes' plane crash survivors.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24976
- Title
- Hell's Angels
- Author
- Thompson, Hunter S
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140028013
- ISBN 13
- 9780140028010
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1967)
- Keywords
- 0140028013
Terms of Sale
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Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Reprint
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- Blurb
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