The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by Wolfe, Tom
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 1968. Second printing, in year of publication. Original cloth boards (titled in psychedelic colours to the spine), dustjacket, pp viii, 413, ii. Top edge of boards damaged/heavily rubbed, small mark upper edge lower board, some fading as usual to blue top edge with a few marks otherwise very good condition, small water mark to upper front d.j. with light wrinkling to rear, very good protected dustjacket (with original price $5.95 to front flap and photograph of Tom Wolfe (rear panel). Contents clean. Very good. The most famous book of New Journalism, and often considered the essential book about hippies and the counter-cultural movement of the 1960s. The book is a first-hand account of the experiences of Ken Kesey and a group of psychedelic enthusiasts known as the Merry Pranksters, including their use of psychedelic drugs. 2nd impression. Boards in d.j..
Synopsis
Are you on the bus? Tom Wolfe took a tour with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters as they departed California and made their way across the country in a day-glo painted bus full of LSD and enthusiasm in the summer of 1964.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Muir Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 102421
- Title
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
- Author
- Wolfe, Tom
- Format/Binding
- Boards in d.j.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 2nd impression
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- Counterculture, Hippy, Journalism, Literature, Psychedelia, USA
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Muir Books
Biblio member since 2006
Perth, Western Australia
About Muir Books
MUIR BOOKS. Western Australia's largest and leading rare, secondhand, antiquarian and out of print bookshop, established in 1973 and managed by Rob & Janet Muir together with Tara Surry. We have over 50,000 books in stock. We are located in Perth (precinct of Northbridge), walking distance from the State Library, Art Gallery and Museum.
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