About this title: Hunter S. Thompson's most eccentric book in a new, limited edition 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 ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780553013870ISBN:0553013874
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. Upper corner front wrap tip and first few page corners lightly creased. read more
Description: Fair. Cover has edgewear, bumping, marks, scratches, back cover has large tear as if a sticker was peeled off, some of the text was torn off as well from back cover-Bumped pgs-Some marks on edge-Few marks on pgs-Cracked and visible binding at pg 124/125-Has wear but still readable. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780553013870ISBN:0553013874
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. Small stain lower front wrap. Wrap shows minor wear. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780553013870ISBN:0553013874
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. 1st printing. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. Exterior shows soiling and light spine blow outs. Edges show wear. Well worn but binding strong. Back few pages show waves from crimp. No handwriting. read more
Description: Paperback. 4th printing, 1983. Very Good with yellowing to spine and edges, corners bumped, some creasing to covers and one small closed tear to fore-edge of rear cover. read more
Edition: First UK Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Picador, London
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780330282956ISBN:0330282956
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Lam card covers. clean int-no inscrip. Worn on top and bottom of spine, along front cover. pp160. bar code strip on back cover partially ripped off, removing laminate on back cover, leaving small rough section. Col & b/w illusts. Still sound. Humourous story based in South Seas...Hawaii. Bookseller Inventory #04093. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Bantam Books, United States
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780553013870ISBN:0553013874
Description: Very good No jacket. Inside title page states November 1983; clean unmarked text with tight binding, cover with minor imprints, slight corner wear. Lyrical tale with island history, folklore. read more
Description: Paperback. First edition, first printing. 159pp. Illustrations throughout by Ralph Steadman. In Good condition with previous owner's signature on the inside of front cover, 2" piece of foot of spine pulled away from spine though still present, chipping and wear to head of spine, and overall wear to wrappers. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780553013870ISBN:0553013874
Description: Very Good. 1st printing/full number line. Tight, straight binding/very gently read if at all. Clean, unmarked pages/edges lightly toned. Bright, glossy covers/lightly toned edges/light wear at edges/tiny dings seen only in bright light. No markings of any kind. Rather attractive copy. Carefully packaged. Fast shipping. Tracking number for US orders. Reliable and experienced seller. read more
Edition: November 1983, 7th Printing
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780553013870ISBN:0553013874
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. Nice Unmarked Copy. Light Bump to Corners. Light Wrinkle to Lower Page Corners Probably Due to Moisture. Minor Ding Middle Top Edge Front Cover. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books,, NY:
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780553013870ISBN:0553013874
Description: Illustrated by Ralph Steadman. Near Fine. 0553013874. A paperback original. Seventh printing. About fine in illustrated wraps.; 160 pages. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Bantam Books, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780553013870ISBN:0553013874
Description: Steadman, Ralph. Very Good. First Edition/Second Printing. Slight yellowing of its white cover, no rips tears or folds, unmarked. read more
Description: -Tall octavo [10 inches high by 7 inches wide], soft covers bound in pictorial white wraps. The wraps are lightly rubbed with the corners lightly creased. 158 & [2] pages. Full-page & textual illustrations in color & black & white by Ralph Steadman. Very good. First trade edition. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780553013870ISBN:0553013874
Description: Very Good. 0553013874. Light scratches and faint soiling to covers. Text is clean and bright. 4174; 158 pages; 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. read more
Edition: First Edition, Second Printing.
Binding: Illustrated Card Covers.
Publisher: Bantam Books., New York
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780553013870ISBN:0553013874
Description: RALPH STEADMAN. Very Good. Small 4to. Pp: 160. Illustrated throughout with Steadman's drawings and paintings, many in colour. Second printing of the Paperback Original first edition. Light crease to lower fore-corner of front cover; small nick to bottom edge of rear cover and last three leaves. read more
Description: NY: Bantam Books, 1983. 159 pages. 1st printing of the 1st edition. Profusely illustrated by Steadman, in color. Very Good. Clean and bright with short closed split bottom front spine fold, long crease bottom rear cover. ISBN: 0553013874 1st state, with mispelling (Stedman) on copyright page. read more
"The most elaborate, hilarious, and engrossing "big fish" tale ever committed to print. This is one of Hunter Thompson's greatest achievements, and it doesn't hurt that the packaging is lavish. A huge coffeetable book with quality prints, facsimiles of the Good Doctor's relevant letters, and interspersed excerpts from other books that fill in the Hawaiian history relevant to the story. What is so fascinating about this last feature is that it reveals what other HST books have left out: the studious preparation behind the wild stories. Roughly ten years after Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the action opens with the line "We were about forty minutes out of San Fransisco when the crew finally decided to take action on the problem in Lavatory 1B." Remarkably similar to the iconic opening "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold". And so begins a manifold tale of America in the '80s-a tale of a Christmas vacation gone horribly, horribly wrong-a tale of high stakes sports fishing-and the tale of a man finding his inner godliness on the westernmost edge of America. Put that way, The Curse of Lono might be the most ambitious book in the Thompson oeuvre. Either way, I personally think it is his funniest."
"First Hunter S. Thompson book I read and he's got a great writing style. I believe it's called Gonzo? Anyways....funny, entertaining and wierd. Loved it."
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