The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, Tom Wolfe
First edition, fourth printing of Wolfe's first published collection of essays. Boldly inscribed by Wolfe to the flyleaf with his typical flourish.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1965. Publisher's original white cloth, lettered and decorated in yellow and gilt, yellow topstain, orange endpapers; pp. xvii, 339. A near fine copy in a very good or better, price-clipped dust jacket. Binding remains tight, sturdy and square, minimal wear to boards, a touch of rubbing to bottom edge of text block. Internally clean, appearing unread. Jacket shows light shelfwear and rubbing with a crease to rear flap, protected in archival mylar.