The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

WOLFE, Tom

Publisher: Farrar Straus and Giroux

Location: New York, NY

Date: 1968

Binding: Octavo, full bound white cloth boards with stamped title to spine.

Edition: FIRST EDITION

Printing: 1st Printing

Description:

First Edition, First Printing of Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, the classic account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters during their bus trip across America in the late 1960’s, with appearences from the good ol's Grateful Dead, Kerouac and Neal 'FastestManAlive' Cassady. Unclipped Jacket design by Milton Glaser of 'I Love NY' logo fame. A very handsome example.

Bright, tight, internally clean with only small dedication on front fly (see photo)

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test was published by Farrar Straus Giroux in 1968 and is considered ideal insight into the hippie movement. The New York Times said the novel is not simply the best book on the hippies, it is the essential book . . . the pushing, ballooning heart of the matter . . . Vibrating dazzle!" Indeed, "[a]among journalists, Wolfe is a genuine poet; what makes him so good is his ability to get inside, to not merely describe (although he is a superb reporter), but to get under the skin of a phenomenon and transmit its metabolic rhythm" (Newsweek). The journalist himself is considered by Terry Southern "a groove and a gas. Everyone should send him money and other fine things. Hats off to Tom Wolfe!"

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