Hunter S. Thompson – The Rum Diary – First Edition 1998
£45.00
A first edition, first printing of The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson, published by Bloomsbury, London in 1998. A near fine copy free from internal inscriptions, pushing to the boards upper corners, some toning to the text block. In a near fine unclipped wrapper with bumping to the top edge and chipping to the upper knuckle of the front flap fold.Â
Published posthumously in 1998, The Rum Diary is Hunter S. Thompson’s early novel about Paul Kemp, an itinerant journalist working for a failing English-language newspaper in 1950s Puerto Rico. Amid heavy drinking, sexual jealousy, corruption and a restless expatriate life, Kemp becomes increasingly disillusioned with both his colleagues and himself. Less frenzied than Thompson’s later work, the novel already displays his sharp humour, alienation and fascination with outsiders drifting through unstable, morally compromised worlds around them
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A first edition, first printing of The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson, published by Bloomsbury, London in 1998. A near fine copy free from internal inscriptions, pushing to the boards upper corners, some toning to the text block. In a near fine unclipped wrapper with bumping to the top edge and chipping to the upper knuckle of the front flap fold.Â
Published posthumously in 1998, The Rum Diary is Hunter S. Thompson’s early novel about Paul Kemp, an itinerant journalist working for a failing English-language newspaper in 1950s Puerto Rico. Amid heavy drinking, sexual jealousy, corruption and a restless expatriate life, Kemp becomes increasingly disillusioned with both his colleagues and himself. Less frenzied than Thompson’s later work, the novel already displays his sharp humour, alienation and fascination with outsiders drifting through unstable, morally compromised worlds around them
