Collect Telegram from a Mad Dog in Spider Magazine, Volume I, Number VII

by Hunter S. Thompson

$500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Oakland: Spider, 1965. First edition. Includes the poem Collect Telegram from a Mad Dog by Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas author Hunter S. Thompson, the only example of his poetry published during his lifetime that we are aware of. Printed a year before the publication of his debut, Hell's Angels, when he was still researching the book. He made contact with the staff of Spider for a September 1965

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