WOLFE, TOM — In Our Time
New York, NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Tom Wolfe. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ ondition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. There is some beginning fading to a strip of the top and bottom edges of both front and rear covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked gift notation on the front endpaper. The dust jacket has some light edgewear and nicking to both top and bottom edges of the book covers. "Wolfe began his career as a regional newspaper reporter in the 1950s, achieving national prominence in the 1960s following the publication of such best-selling books as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (a highly experimental account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters) and two collections of articles and essays, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers. In 1979, he published the influential book The Right Stuff about the Mercury Seven astronauts, which was made into a 1983 film of the same name directed by Philip Kaufman. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .
