Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine And Other Stories, Sketches, and Essays.
WOLFE, Tom.
Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine And Other Stories, Sketches, and Essays.
First Edition of Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine; Warmly Inscribed by Tom Wolfe in the year of publication
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976.
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First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo, original cloth, sketches by the author. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, “To Dan, with thanks- for a pleasant mid-day in the bowels of the NBC Building! Tom Wolfe December 9, 1976.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. Uncommon signed and inscribed in the year of publication.
"No one is as good as Wolfe on the contradictions between cushy class and angry consciousness . . . These essays offer a lively picture of the surface of our society... one wishes life were this interesting" (Jack Beatty, The Nation).
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