Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
by Hunter S Thompson
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-
- Seller
-
Camden, Maine, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Taiwan: Pirated Edition, 1967. hardcover. Very Good-. 1967 blue cloth hardcover with silver lettering on spine, a pirated edition from Taiwan, no dust jacket, cover and fore-edge lightly soiled, 278 pages
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
- Stone Soup Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20807
- Title
- Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
- Author
- Hunter S Thompson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Publisher
- Pirated Edition
- Place of Publication
- Taiwan
- Date Published
- 1967
Terms of Sale
Stone Soup Books
Books are returnable within 14 days. Full refund upon return.
About the Seller
Stone Soup Books
Biblio member since 2004
Camden, Maine
About Stone Soup Books
Established in 1982, Stone Soup Books is a small secondhand bookstore owned by Paul and Agnes Joy in the coastal town of Camden in Maine. With 25,000 books we cater mainly to readers with a large selection of current and classic paperbacks. We also have large sections of nautical, exploration, Maine, gardening, cookbooks, photography, and art books. Our internet stock includes out of print hardcover books, older children's books, and modern first editions.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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