WOLFE, Tom [Tom Hanks].
The Bonfire of the Vanities.
First Edition of The Bonfire of the Vanities; Signed by Tom Wolfe and Tom Hanks and Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1987.
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First edition of the author's first novel, basis for the film starring Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panel, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Boldly signed by Tom Wolfe and Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks on a page bound in. In fine condition. Rare and desirable.
The Bonfire of the Vanities is a novel, but it is based on the same sort of detailed on-scene reporting as Wolfe's great nonfiction bestsellers, The Right Stuff, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. And it is every bit as eye-opening in its achievements. It is a big, panoramic story of the metropolis-the kind of fiction strangely absent from our literature in the second half of this century-that reinforces Tom Wolfe's reputation as the foremost chronicler of the way we live in America. "A big, bitter, funny, craftily plotted book that grabs you by the lapels and won't let go" (The New York Times Book Review).
The Bonfire of the Vanities.
$2,250.00
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