Finally scored a copy of Gonzo, the very oversized Hunter Thompson tribute/memorial that came out two years ago at $400. I offered an eBay seller $200 for his copy via Buy It Now, which he turned down. When he put it up for auction a week later, I emerged with it for only $155. He mailed it in a box the size of a steamer trunk which cost him some extra postage. Someone lost money somewhere along the line here.
And yet I still overpaid. The outer husk of the book is a cardboard box which features the limitation number. Inside is a nice blue cloth slipcase. Inside that is Gonzo itself as well as a print of Hunter. The book is a stroll through the Gonzo years, with the usual wild and crazy quotes, shots of key manuscript pages, photos of the healthy young Hunter and the beautiful young Sandy, etc. etc. It is designed in the Way Too Arty style. At the end is a bibliographic listing giving titles and publishers. Some degree of the attention that went into this project can be seen by the fact that "Las Vegas" is credited not to Random House but Warner Books, a careless mistake.
Gonzo should have hit the remainder shelves long ago. But all three thousand copies sold out, and when the occasional copy shows up online it is rarely for less than $300. Hunter's suicide only accelerated the process where he's prized as a commodity rather than as a writer. He would have been saddened by this even as he wholeheartedly participated in it.