Wolfe (Tom) The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamlined-Baby
£120
London, Jonathan Cape, 1966.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original pink boards. Dust-jacket, priced 30s.
The first UK edition of US journalist & author Tom Wolfe’s collected essays, including articles on the counter-culture in America. This copy has a printed note from the publishers to the front free endpaper, apologising to the artist Bridget Riley for not obtaining her permission to base the jacket design on one of her artworks.
In stock
Boards slightly faded at extremities; jacket a little rubbed and tarnished at edges.
Jacket design after Bridget Riley’s artwork Current.
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