Curse of Lono - New Taschen Edition - Collecting Tiki

TW Trader Woody Member Tiki Manor, Forest of Bowland,UK Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 2301	TW Trader Woody Posted posted on Sat, Feb 5, 2005 2:46 PM Glad to see a few copies going to Tiki Centralites! 1000 copies might seem a lot, but once you figure Thompson, Steadman, Sean Penn (Who wrote the intro), people at Taschen, major libraries and assorting hangers on will have claimed at least 100 of these, it's not actually many at all. Rabid collectors devour both Thompson & Steadman stuff, and there must be a few misguided Sean Penn fans out there all competing for a print run that's less than the average mid-sized show in a minor city. Some good news here: "Toward that end, perhaps, Thompson and Taschen have teamed up to republish his 1983 trade paperback, The Curse of Lono, a collection of ripping yarns swirling about the Hawaii Marathon and illustrated by Ralph Steadman, who has become Thompson’s Boswell and Beardsley. The long-out-of-print book, which shows Thompson’s humor at its driest, is so rare that it doesn’t even exist in the L.A. Public Library system. This time Lono will be a coffee-table volume that prefigures a planned movie version in the works. Taschen is also preparing an as-yet-untitled photo-journal of Thompson’s life, due out in summer 2005, that will document his evolution all the way back to childhood." Trader Woody

Glad to see a few copies going to Tiki Centralites!

1000 copies might seem a lot, but once you figure Thompson, Steadman, Sean Penn (Who wrote the intro), people at Taschen, major libraries and assorting hangers on will have claimed at least 100 of these, it's not actually many at all. Rabid collectors devour both Thompson & Steadman stuff, and there must be a few misguided Sean Penn fans out there all competing for a print run that's less than the average mid-sized show in a minor city.

Some good news here:
"Toward that end, perhaps, Thompson and Taschen have teamed up to republish his 1983 trade paperback, The Curse of Lono, a collection of ripping yarns swirling about the Hawaii Marathon and illustrated by Ralph Steadman, who has become Thompson’s Boswell and Beardsley. The long-out-of-print book, which shows Thompson’s humor at its driest, is so rare that it doesn’t even exist in the L.A. Public Library system. This time Lono will be a coffee-table volume that prefigures a planned movie version in the works. Taschen is also preparing an as-yet-untitled photo-journal of Thompson’s life, due out in summer 2005, that will document his evolution all the way back to childhood."

Trader Woody

Post #139624 by Trader Woody on Sat, Feb 5, 2005 2:46 PM