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THE PUMP HOUSE GANG

THE PUMP HOUSE GANG

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THE PUMP HOUSE GANG

by Wolfe, Tom

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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968. Pp. x+310(last blank), full page pictorial headpieces by the author, title page decorations; demy 8vo; qr. red cloth, spine lettered and decorated in silver, marbled papered boards, the top fore-corner of lower board lightly bruised; top edges dark grey; dust wrapper, edges a trifle creased, the back panel slightly soiled; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the free endpapers faintly offset, a couple of spots of foxing; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1968. First edition. *The dust wrapper design is by Milton Glaser.

Synopsis

The Pump House Gang is a 1968 collection of essays and journalism by Tom Wolfe. The stories in the book explored various aspects of the counterculture of the 1960s. The most famous story in the collection, from which the book takes its name, is about Jack Macpherson and his gang of surfers that frequented a sewage pump house at Windansea Beach in La Jolla, California.

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Bookseller
Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller AU (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #
165718
Title
THE PUMP HOUSE GANG
Author
Wolfe, Tom
Book Condition
Used
Quantity Available
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1968

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