August 2020 Catalogue

A u g u s t 2 0 2 0 61 Wonderfully Inscribed By Tom Wolfe 59. WOLFE, Tom. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. New York, 1968. Octavo, original white cloth, dust jacket. $2500. Click for more info First edition of Wolfe’s lively “celebration of psychedelia,” boldly inscribed: “‘Further!’ you Michaelses, you, TomWolfe,” a splendid copy in the colorful Milton Glaser dust jacket. “ Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is a celebration of psychedelia… It is an astonishing, enlightening, at times baffling and explosively funny book” ( New York Times ). A lovely inscribed copy in bright price-clipped dust jacket. “I’d rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.”