The Curse of Lono
Köln: Taschen, 2005. Full page color illustrations by Ralph Steadman. Limited edition. Publisher's full white cloth, illustratively stamped in black, red, and blue, housed in publisher's orange cloth slipcase. Includes publisher's shipping box. 195, [5]. 17.25" x 13" Lightly soiled front board's fore edge, very slightly bowed front board, still fine, in fine publisher's slipcase. Item #242047
RELEASED INTO A POST-THOMPSON WORLD
The Curse of Lono almost never saw the light of day. In the throes of drugs, alcohol, and writer's block, Hunter S. Thompson couldn't form his experiences at the 1980 Hawaii Marathon into something cohesive. He and editor Alan Rinzler eventually pieced his tale together through taped interviews and notes scrawled on napkins. Rinzler stole the stray notes, padded the manuscript with quotes to create some semblance of coherence, and released Thompson's hallucinogenic experience with Ralph Steadman's spattered illustrations.
Wildly unpopular upon its 1983 publication and long out of print, Taschen published this limited edition, signed by both Thompson and Steadman in 2005, just a month after Thompson's death. Limited to 1000 numbered copies, of which this is 703, signed on the limitation page.
Price: $2,000.00