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THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST
by WOLFE, Tom:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1969. First UK edition, first printing. First UK edition, first printing. Original red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the Sarah Whitcombe designed dustwrapper. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents bright and clean throughout. Minor bump to the lower edge of the spine. Complete with the bright, clean, neatly price-clipped dustwrapper with the vibrant colours completely unfaded. There is a touch of rubbing and laminate lift to edges and corners and minor crumpling to foot of spine. A sharp, attractive copy. The follow-up to 'The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby' (1965), Wolfe's exuberant firsthand account of the novelist Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters as they travelled across America in a brightly painted bus is a classic of late twentieth-century American prose. "Tom Wolfe's 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test' is a literary "gateway drug" – a hallucination of a book that introduced me to a whole new way of looking at the world" (Jarvis Cocker). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Synopsis
Are you on the bus? Tom Wolfe took a tour with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters as they departed California and made their way across the country in a day-glo painted bus full of LSD and enthusiasm in the summer of 1964.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lucius Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22322
- Title
- THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST
- Author
- WOLFE, Tom:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First UK edition, first printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1969
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York, North Yorkshire
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- Gilt
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- New
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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