The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
by Acosta, Oscar Zeta; Thompson, Hunter S. (Introduction); Acosta, Marco (Afterword)
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- Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679722130
- ISBN 13
- 9780679722137
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Rapid River, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: Vintage Books, 1989. Tenth printing. Import from Infinity Books of Tokyo, Japan. First published in 1972 by Straight Arrow Books. Glossy pictorial wraps, light shelf wear. Mescalinish dreamy montage cover illustration by Tom Sciacca. Pages fine. Bind fine. With a new introduction for this 1989 edition by Hunter Thompson and afterword by Acosta's son Marco. Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing "Dr. Gonzo," a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite for food, drugs, and life on the edge. Written with uninhibited candor and manic energy, this book is Acosta's own account of coming of age as a Chicano in the psychedelic sixties, of taking on impossible cases while breaking all the rules of courtroom conduct, and scrambling headlong in search of a personal and cultural identity. A landmark of contemporary literature, at once ribald, surreal, and unmistakably authentic. 204 pages. Insured post.. First Edition Thus. Soft Cover. Fine. Illus. by Sciacca, Tom. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.
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- BiblioStax (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020083
- Title
- The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
- Author
- Acosta, Oscar Zeta; Thompson, Hunter S. (Introduction); Acosta, Marco (Afterword)
- Illustrator
- Sciacca, Tom
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0679722130
- ISBN 13
- 9780679722137
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
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