Tom Wolfe — Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine

New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976. First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition, first printing of Wolfe's third collection of essays and short stories, written between between 1967 and 1976. The first edition, first printing in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. A collection of eleven essays and one short story which Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) wrote between 1967 and 1976. This work includes the essay in which he coined the term "the 'Me' Decade", which he used to refer to the 1970s. Wolfe was associated with the 'New Journalism' of the 1960s and 1970s, a style of journalism which incorporated literary techniques. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth is in excellent condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Small closed tear to the front of dust wrapper, with a touch of sunning to the extremities, but otherwise a very smart and bright dust wrapper. Fine . Ill.: Tom Wolfe. Fine/Near Fine.