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Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
by Thompson, Hunter S
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 067960331X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679603313
- Seller
-
Schenectady, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Cloth hardcover with dust jacket. 266 pages with a new Introduction by Douglas Brinkley. Later printing.
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
- Iron Engine
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2023-007
- Title
- Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
- Author
- Thompson, Hunter S
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 067960331X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679603313
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Pages
- 266
Terms of Sale
Iron Engine
30 days.
About the Seller
Iron Engine
Biblio member since 2007
Schenectady, New York
About Iron Engine
general used and out-of-print books with an interest in sculpture & art.
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