Tom Wolfe — The Pump House Gang

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of essays from American author and journalist Thomas Wolfe. First edition, first printing. A collection of essays and journalism exploring various aspects of the counterculture of the 1960s. The title essay is based on a two-part New York Herald Tribune Sunday Magazine article about Jack Macpherson and his circle of surfers that congregated at a sewage pump house in California. Written by Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism. In the original quarter red cloth binding with grey paper covered boards. Externally, very smart with minor wear to the extremities. Original price-clipped dust wrapper is very smart with minor wear and the odd small mark to the panel edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Library ink stamp to the front endpaper. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.