(n.p.), Pageant Magazine, 1968. Galley sheets for Thompson's article on the Nixon campaign, written for the July 1968 issue of Pageant Magazine. Here untitled, and dated April 10, 1968. Eventually collected in The Great Shark Hunt. We were unable to locate this issue of Pageant, but the galleys differ from the collected version in a handful of instances. Six pages, 9" x 12", printed on rectos only, with penciled notation "670 lines/at 32 chars/per line." A notable piece in Thompson's bibliography and his biography: it is the first piece he wrote on Richard Nixon, who became over the years something of a nemesis or a bete noire to Thompson. Thompson's hatred of Nixon was legendary and it created a kind of bond between the two. After Nixon's death Thompson wrote "Richard Nixon was an evil man -- evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency." And yet he also wrote "It was Richard Nixon who got me into politics, and now that he's gone, I feel lonely." Folded in half once, with a gentle corner crease; near fine. Early gonzo reporting, in a rare advance state. [#029615] SOLD