The Rum Diary. The Long Lost Novel
signed first edition
1998 · New York
by THOMPSON, HUNTER S
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Signed by the author, Hunter S. Thompson on a special publisher’s bookplate affixed to front flyleaf. As new in dust jacket. Thompson’s autograph is very uncommon. Written in 1959 and long thought lost, this novel is a vintage piece of Thompson’s writing. “The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery & violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. ‘It was a gold rush...There were naked people everywhere and we all had credit.’” The basis of the acclaimed film starring Johnny Depp. (Inventory #: 15204J)