Deceased hard-living writer who inserted himself into his accounts of America's underbelly and popularized a first-person form of journalism in books such as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Signed book: The Rum Diary. First edition, first printing. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1998. Hardcover with dustjacket, 5.5 x 9.5, 204 pages. Signed on a bookplate affixed to the second free end page. In fine condition. RRAuction COA.
