The Pump House Gang
by WOLFE, Tom
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1968. 8vo, pp. 309. Original grey marbled boards, lettered in silver on red spine. Brown top edge. A near fine copy in a very good dustwrapper, a little edgewear and light dampstaining to top edge of rear panel. First edition. Wolfe's collection of essays documenting the 1960s counterculture of the USA in general and New York in particular. An indispensable social document and an early, dazzling firework display from the man who would go on to establish himself as his country's psychoanalyst-in-chief.
Synopsis
The Pump House Gang is a 1968 collection of essays and journalism by Tom Wolfe. The stories in the book explored various aspects of the counterculture of the 1960s. The most famous story in the collection, from which the book takes its name, is about Jack Macpherson and his gang of surfers that frequented a sewage pump house at Windansea Beach in La Jolla, California.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Neil Pearson Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1822
- Title
- The Pump House Gang
- Author
- WOLFE, Tom
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1968
- Keywords
- Modern First Editions
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