Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

Census claim confirmed in substance: Random House, New York, 1967 is the true first and is Thompson's first book. The census's "UK Penguin followed" needs sharpening: the first UK edition is a 1967 hardcover from Allen Lane / The Penguin Press, London, which follows the US and is recorded by the Thompson bibliography site as very scarce and possibly a limited release to libraries or suppliers. Later Penguin and Ballantine paperback settings are first-thus, not firsts. Some listings date the book 1966; the first American edition is dated 1967 and printed January 1967.