The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965. Black and white illustrations by Tom Wolfe. First edition, first printing. Publisher's full white cloth, decoratively stamped in yellow and gilt, in Janet Halverson dust jacket. 339 pp. 8.5" x 5.5" Slight bumps to upper corners, gently toned extremities, still near fine in very good, price-clipped dust jacket with touches of shelf wear, toned upper edge, spots of light soiling flap folds, vertical crease rear flap, in mylar cover. Item #242858
THE WRITER'B BLOCK THAT BIRTHED NEW JOURNALISM
Tom Wolfe discovered custom car artists at just the right time. As journalism was getting a facelift in the ‘60s, merging the creative freedom of novels with news writing’s boots-on-the-ground research, Esquire leapt at the opportunity to integrate Wolfe’s New Journalism into their magazine. Before he could finish the project, Wolfe was struck with crippling writer’s block and could not finish. But there was a full spread photograph waiting for a story, so Byron Dobell (Esquire's managing editor) asked for Wolfe's notes to give to someone else to finish writing. Turns out, Wolfe’s stream of consciousness scribbles, speckled with onomatopoeia and obscure characters of the car world, were the right fit; stripped of the "Dear Byron," Wolfe's notes were published as The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. This collection includes Wolfe's groundbreaking titular essay, his musings on Vegas, and his famed profile of NASCAR legend Junior Johnson, "The Last American Hero."
First edition of Tom Wolfe’s first book, signed by him on the title page.
Price: $625.00