First printing

£12 plus shipping

240 pages. Format approx. Format approx. 7"/170mm wide x 10"/240mm tall. Acid-free card covers and text paper; full colour title page; light grey acid-free endpapers. Printed & bound in England. ISBN: 978-1-910691-30-4

Front cover photo by ANNIE LIEBOVITZ

* PAPERBACK NOT TO BE SOLD IN USA/CANADA

100 Numbered copies

RRP £50 plus shipping

240 pages. Pinched Crown format, approx. 7”/175mm wide, 10”/250mm tall. Handbound at the Tangerine workshop with cloth-covered acid-free boards, conservation glue and hemp cord; foil embossed front cover artwork; colour title page. ISBN: 978-1-910691-29-8

Quarterbound with Fabriano Tiziano 'oatmeal' paper covered boards and cloth spine; acid-free text paper; Fabriano Tiziano red endpapers; front cover artwork embossed in black.

AUTHOR PHOTO BY ANNIE LIEBOVITZ
Includes a bound in high quality reproduction of Annie Liebovitz's photo of the author on Mohawk Superfine paper.

All copies SIGNED by Ilan Stavans.

26 Lettered/signed/artwork copies

RRP £*** plus shipping

240 pages. Pinched Crown format, approx. 7”/175mm wide, 10”/250mm tall. Handbound at the Tangerine workshop with cloth-covered acid-free boards, conservation glue and hemp cord; foil embossed front cover artwork; colour title page. ISBN: 978-1-910691-29-8

Quarter bound with Canson Mi-Tientes havanna brown paper covered boards and red silk/cloth spine; front cover artwork embossed in red; acid-free text paper; photo of Mr Acosta is Indigo printed onto Mohawk Superfine paper and forms part of the 3-page ‘stepped’ Fabriano Tiziano front endpapers — the other page colours being brown and red; Fabriano Tiziano brown endpapers.

AUTHOR PHOTO BY ANNIE LIEBOVITZ
Includes a bound in high quality reproduction of Annie Liebovitz's photo of the author on Mohawk Superfine paper.

SPECIALLY COMMISSIONED ARTWORK BY RALPH STEADMAN
Indigo printed onto acid-free Rives paper and housed in an acid-free custom Baghdad Brown envelope. The envelope is embossed in silver.

All lettered copies are SIGNED by Ilan Stavans and publisher/binder Michael Curran.

LETTERED COPIES SENT OUT WITH A COMPLIMENTARY 'READING COPY' OF THE FIRST PRINT PAPERBACK

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ORIGINAL REVIEWS FOR...

“Acosta writes with the heat of a blast-off…”
— Publishers Weekly

“Acosta has entered counterculture folklore. This is the life story of a man whose pain is made real, whose roots are in question, and whose society seems to be
fragmenting around him.”
— Saturday Review of Literature

Most famously depicted as the pill-popping lawyer Dr Gonzo in Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Oscar “Zeta” Acosta’s wild, moving first book, originally published in 1972, reveals a man of astonishing variety. A converted Baptist missionary in Panama, bar hopper, psychiatric patient, struggling writer, heartbroken lover, great imposter, connoisseur of excess, maverick lawyer, Chicano activist, Brown Buffalo – Mr Acosta did it all, then disappeared like a puff of smoke off the coast of Mazatlán, Mexico in the spring of 1974.

Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American, and Latino Culture at Amherst College, publisher of Restless Books, and host of NPR’s podcast “In Contrast.” His books include Quixote: The Novel and the World, The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry and Bandido: The Death and Resurrection of Oscar “Zeta” Acosta.