WOLFE, Tom [Ken Kesey].
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
"It's great to be an Angel and high all the time": First Edition of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test; Signed by Tom Wolfe, Ken Kesey, Larry McMurtry, and Ken Babbs
New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1968.
$8,800.00
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Item Number: RRB-132191
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First edition of the classic account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters during their bus trip across America in the late 1960's. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed Ken Kesey on the front free endpaper and signed on the title page by Tom Wolfe, Larry McMurtry, with the following inscription from Ken Babbs, "It's great to be an Angel and high all the time" Ken Babbs." An exceptional example, most rare and desirable signed.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test was published by Farrar Straus Giroux in 1968 and is considered ideal insight into the hippie movement. The New York Times said the novel is not simply the best book on the hippies, it is the essential book . . . the pushing, ballooning heart of the matter . . . Vibrating dazzle!" Indeed, "[a]mong journalists, Wolfe is a genuine poet; what makes him so good is his ability to get inside, to not merely describe (although he is a superb reporter), but to get under the skin of a phenomenon and transmit its metabolic rhythm" (Newsweek). The journalist himself is considered by Terry Southern "a groove and a gas. Everyone should send him money and other fine things. Hats off to Tom Wolfe!"
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
$8,800.00
Out of Stock
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