SCANLANS#4 Hunter S. Thompson signed by RALPH STEADMAN HUNTER S. THOMPSON+ RALPH STEADMANS FIRST COLLABORATION Start Price USD 765.00 Current Price USD 765.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, November 18, 2008 End Time Sunday, November 23, 2008 Location Los Angeles, California See more about 'SCANLANS#4 Hunter S. Thompson signed by RALPH STEADMAN' Description I am pleased to offer (but hate to part with) this special example of teamwork in the face of adversity.This Scanlan's, issue number 4 out of only 8 that existed for this great and politically punchy magazine contains the strange, wonderful, entertaining and ultimately insightful results of the  very first meeting (if you want to call it that) and coming together of the wry wit of a young Hunter S. Thompson and his savagely skillful to-be illustrator and partner in crime for many adventures that are legendary today, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Curse of Lono just being two of the more famous ones.This magazine is in excellent condition considering it's 38 years of existence, and it's very dramatically SIGNED AND DATED ON HALLOWEEN, 2006 by the world's one and only Ralph Steadman who we all know should be Knighted for his contribution to society at large.This first collaboration led to this LENGTHY 11 PAGE article on the KENTUCKY DERBY, one of our main historic sports and fashion events, and they looked at it and showed the people there in such a funny and bizarre way, it's an instant classic and made their careers a foregone conclusion.  GONZO JOURNALISM WAS BORN IN THIS ISSUE!ALSO INCLUDED WILL BE TWO OF THE PASSES TO THE BOOK SIGNING EVENT, IN ORANGE FOR HALLOWEEN IN HOLLYWOOD, EACH WITH THE DATE AND TIME OF THE SIGNING ALONG WITH A PHOTO OF RALPH STEADMAN. I WILL ALSO PROVIDE THE WINNER OF THIS AUCTION WITH A PHOTO OF RALPH GRACIOUSLY SIGNING THIS PARTICULAR MAGAZINE.  RALPH WASN'T SIGNING MANY BOOKS THAT NIGHT, SO I FELT PARTICULARLY BLESSED THAT HE'D PERSONALLY AND PAINFULLY SIGN MY RUNNING ISSUE (LISTED SEPARATELY) AND THE SCANLANS FOR ME THAT HALLOWEEN NIGHT ON THE SUNSET STRIP.Naturally, all the photos you see below are the same issue you're bidding on, guaranteed.  This is the only one I have or have ever SEEN!I naturally hate to sell this unique piece, but rent and storage fees on my large archive on Ethiopia, Haile Selassie I, reggae and Rastafari MUST BE PAID!  MY LOSS IS YOUR GAIN, SO PLEASE BID SERIOUSLY FOR THIS GEM OF ART AND HUMOR BY THE TWO GREATEST MEN OF THEIR ILK.PLEASE ALSO CHECK OUT MY OTHER AUCTIONS, SOME OF WHICH WILL FEATURE OTHER WONDERFUL, RARE AND SIGNED WORKS BY RALPH STEADMAN AND HUNTER S. THOMPSON.  ONE OF THEM IS THE RUNNING MAGAZINE CONTAINING HUNTER'S AND RALPH'S INCREDIBLY BIZARRE VIEW OF THE RUNNING OF THE HONOLULU MARATHON, LEADING DIRECTLY TO THE SIDE SPLITTING BOOK THE CURSE OF LONO.Please ask any questions before bidding.  All sales are final and as I need the money for immediate bills, payment is expected promptly.  Please check out my feedback for the best on ebay.Domestic shipping 4.00 first class, 8.00 priority mail plus insurance IS required for the amount of the purchase for this RARE signed item.  Foreign shipping will be 10.00 worldwide with other arrangements being made for insurance.If you need to, I recommend you use esnipe.com for making your last minute bids.  It works, and with ebay's proxy bidding system, you STILL don't pay any money that another bidder doesn't make you pay.=============================================================I am blessed to have a tiny part of my archive on display at the Smithsonian Institute's Natural History Museum as part of their DISCOVERING RASTAFARI exhibition.  Please go check it out any time you're near Washington, D.C.  The display has been successful enough that they are extending it's display time from one year to three. Discovering Rastafari! Exhibit: November 2, 2007 - Indefinite Using artifacts, rare photographs, and ephemera to explore the origins and religious practices of the movement in Jamaica, this exhibition takes viewers beyond the popular Jamaican music known as reggae to the deeper roots of the Rastafari culture. Video footage featuring first-person testimony from male and female Rastafari of different ages, nationalities, and racial and class backgrounds speak to Rastafari of unity and to the spread of the movement across the Caribbean and beyond over the past three decades.PLEASE GO SEE IT. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Like everything I offer, this IS a special and tangible artifact of history.  Your COMPLETE satisfaction is my main objective.  Please check out my feedback?  Everyone who has EVER ordered an item AND paid for it has been left with a very positive impression of the product, my packing and my attitude and that positive reaction is reflected in my feedback. Thanks and blessings!On Nov-05-08 at 23:03:33 PST, seller added the following information: I JUST NOTICED THAT ONE OF THESE RARE MAGAZINES SOLD ON EBAY ON OCT. 27TH, 2008, AUCTION #  190260128143.   IT SOLD FOR $257.62AND IT WAS NEITHER SIGNED nor was it DATED by the great talent RALPH STEADMAN.This ALREADY RARE ISSUE is BOTH signed by Ralph and specifically dated by Ralph and it can be YOURS along with a photo from the event IF the price is right.I SINCERELY HOPE THAT WILL HELP YOU APPRECIATE THE RARITY OF THE ITEMS i AM OFFERING IN MY AUCTIONS, ESPECIALLY THIS ONE!On Nov-07-08 at 11:52:30 PST, seller added the following information:Sincere thanks to ebay seller miss*vicki who has an unsigned copy of this same mag on ebay presently in auction # 280281838020.She has kindly permitted me to copy some of the pertinent information from her auction for this one.According to Wikipedia "Scanlan's Monthly was a short-lived monthly publication, which ran from March 1970 to January 1971.  Edited by Warren Hinckle III and Sidney Zion.  It featured politically controversial muckraking and was ultimately subject to an investigation by the FBI during the Nixon administration.  It was boycotted by publishing technicians as "un-American" by 1971.  Scanlan's is best-remembered for featuring several articles by Hunter S. Thompson, and especially for what is considered the first instance of gonzo journalism, Thompson's "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved".   the following is excerpted from an article by Ralph Steadman in the NewYork Times: "Scanlan's magazine, for those of you who missed those nine wild months of publishing history, was the brainchild of Warren Hinckle III, who scorched through three-quarters of a million dollars of borrowed money in the pitiless pursuit of truth - not least the call to impeach Richard Nixon as early as 1970. The magazine was named after a little-known Nottingham pig farmer called Scanlan and it dedicated itself to maverick journalism and anything that seemed like a good idea at the time. Warren set about making sure everyone knew everything about anything that moved in America, from covert activities in high places to rats in a New York restaurant kitchen. His business partner was Sydney E. Zion, who later gained a reputation as the man who fingered psychiatrist Daniel Ellsberg as the source of the 'Pentagon Papers', which had made public in The New York Times the US military's account of activities during the Vietnam War. They achieved their goal and made Nixon's blacklist in record time. Unfortunately Warren's excessive lifestyle and appetites outstripped the financial cornucopia that was there to begin with. After the ninth issue, the well dried up and the magazine sucked itself to death. When it happened we were out on a limb, covering the America's Cup for them. Not the best news to learn over a bad line to New York while asking for more funds. Scanlan's found me in Long Island in April 1970, not long after I had arrived from England to seek my particular vein of gold in the land of the screaming lifestyle. I was staying with a friend in the Hamptons to decompress. His name was Dan Rattiner and he ran - and, in fact, still runs - the local newspapers, Dan's Papers and The East Hampton Other. Dan was young and in love with Pam. Dan and Pare treated me with great kindness and hospitality but after a week I began to feel I was getting in the way. It was time to make my trip into New York to look for work. Dan had generously picked me up at the airport a week earlier. I roll my own cigarettes and, without thinking, I lit up in his car. Dan said, quite sweetly, I thought at the time, that they tended not to encourage such habits, particularly in a car, because it was a bit like 'giving cancer to your friends'. I gulped down the smoke. Then I lowered the window and choked the filthy excrement out into the city. . . . " I believe that this issue of Scanlan's features the first collaboration of Hunter S. Thompson and Steadman. Additional features on Kent State, the Black Panthers, how to counterfeit credit cards, Turning on Newsweek, Dirty Kitchens of New York and Ken Kesey's Atlantis Rising. There are 77 pages.  The condition is very good Thank you Miss*Vicki and thank you potential BIDDERS!MANY people are "watching" these auctions.  Remember esnipe.com if you are serious about these.On Nov-09-08 at 00:25:10 PST, seller added the following information: NOTE:I'm pleased to report that miss*vicki's unsigned copy of this issue four just sold for $162.50.On Nov-11-08 at 20:59:05 PST, seller added the following information:PLEASE EMAIL ME FOR THE photo showing the passes to the Halloween in Hollywood with Ralph Steadman passes, two of which will go to the winner of this and each of my other important RALPH STEADMAN SIGNED ITEM AUCTIONS.  THE WINNER OF THE HIGHEST PRICE AUCTION GETS HIS OR HER PICK AS TO WHICH TWO NUMBERS OF THESE PASSES THEY WANT, AND SO ON.COMMENTS FROM OTHER RECENT BUYERS SAID:  Book is FantasticBuyer: lb98 ( 1422) Nov-13-08 14:47 Top Ebay Seller, Highly Recommended, A++++++++++++++++Buyer: orteel55 ( 200) Oct-09-08 02:43  A++++ fast shipper and great wrapper keeps in contact BEST on E-Bay!!!!fallenrainsales ( 253) Sep-08-08 16:43 wow perfect thx for fast deliveryBuyer: cameoking ( 266) Sep-02-08 14:18 Great Seller! 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