Wolfe, Tom

The Purple Decades: A Reader

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in purple cloth with blind embossed stylized initials on cover and gilt titling on spine. A well-preserved pre-owned copy of this Wolfe reader which covers the 1960s and 1970s, the purple decades. Illustrated by the author, it includes material from The Pump House Gang, The Electric Kool-Aide Acid Test, Radical Chic, From Bauhaus to Our House, The Right Stuff, etc.

This copy is near fine in a very good dust jacket. It includes a gift inscription from 1984 on the FFEP and the jacket is price-clipped.

This book will ship in a new Brodart cover. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #829

Price: $35.00