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Lot 204

Sale 2037 - Summer Reading
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Jun 25, 2024
Lots Close
Jul 16, 2024
Timed Online / Chicago
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$300 - 400
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WOLFE, Tom (1900-1938). The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968. 


8vo. Original white cloth, spine lettered in multi-colored foil, top edge stained blue (blue top stain faded, slight soiling and toning to extremities); dust jacket (slight toning and soiling, a few tiny chips).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with "First Printing, 1968" on the copyright page. One of the most informative accounts of the hippie lifestyle detailing Kesey's exploits during the Merry Pranksters bus trip across the United States in the late 1960s.

[With:] WOLFE, Tom. The Bonfire of the Vanities. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards stamped and lettered in black and silver (spine slanted, hinges starting); dust jacket (slight toning and soiling, some light creasing). FIRST TRADE EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with "First printing, 1987" on the copyright page, preceded only by the LIMITED ISSUE by Franklin Library. IN A FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET with "374-11534-6" on the rear flap.

Fine Literature from the Collection of Richard C. McKenzie

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