Post #139409 by Trader Woody on Fri, Feb 4, 2005 12:33 PM

It was mentioned on another thread, but Taschen (Publisher of the Book of Tiki) is publishing a limited hardback edition of 'The Curse of Lono' by Hunter S. Thompson. It's signed by both HST and Ralph Steadman, who illustrated it with many a Tiki, and there's only 1000 of these made.

When I originally looked at the Amazon.com website, they were selling it for 30% off the $200 cover price while the Amazon.co.uk site was selling it for a mere 10% off. "Pah!" I thought, "I'll buy it elsewhere".

Now, when I looked at the Amazon.co.uk site today, the price has shot up to 50% OVER the cover price! Then I looked at Amazon.com and that's now $300, also 50% over! Obviously they are very very close to selling out.

Now, I don't want fellow Tiki Centralites to miss out on such a great book (I named my home Tiki bar after it)so checked out a few places still selling it (relatively) cheap.

So try: http://www.alldirect.com

http://www.biggerbooks.com

Both are still selling it for less than $150.
The price is going through the roof before it's even been published, so act fast!

Trader Woody