Wolfe Tom 1930 (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[10];704; [6]. Publisher's orange paper covered boards, titles in gilt to spine, blind stamped to upper, orange endpapers. Dust-jacket designed by Oliver Munday, with printed price of £30.00 to front flap. Fine.

fester Einband. 1.Auflage, 791 Seiten, O.Papp. mit OU., Gr.-8° (Schnitt etw. fleckig) ISBN 978-3-89667-272-8 // siehe Mängel, sonst guter Zustand.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [Science] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 436; [2]. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust jacket designed by Craig Dodd. Light spotting and toning to edges of textblock, rolling to crown of spine, jacket price clipped. Very good. Wolfe's book charts the lives of the astronauts working on post-war space travel, and thinks about the way in which these people, who were so controlled by the systems around them, managed to assert control over situations they found themselves in. Wolfe also thinks about the ways in which their personal lives were implicated, and portrays how their families were forced to suddenly become public figures.

Leather Bound. Signed, Limited, First Edition. pp. 659. Royal octavo. Bound in the publisher's full plum leather over boards with gilt lettering and art-deco style ornamentation to the spine and front board, all edges gilt; marbled endpapers, silk ribbon-marker. Three raised bands to spine, four compartments. Illustrated colour frontispiece by the author. Bright, clean, and unmarked with firm, sound binding; fine. Accompanied with original publisher's announcement of publication, laid-in. A lovely edition. "This limited first edition of The Bonfire of the Vanities has been privately printed, and personally signed by Tom Wolfe, exclusively for members of the Signed First Edition Society.".

130 : 180 mm Hübsches Portrait in ganzer Figur.

framed. Condition: very good. Autographed letter from American author and journalist Tom Wolfe. Written on personal stationary, speaks to concept of a magazine piece and suggests reaching out to his agent. Hand-written in his unique style. Framed with a black and white photograph. Stationary/letter has some discoloration at the top (possibly from glue in the matting process) and photograph has slightly come off matting in the bottom left corner. Please inquire for more information. Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques. Much of Wolfe's work is satirical and centers on the counterculture of the 1960s and issues related to class, social status, and the lifestyles of the economic and intellectual elites of New York City.

1 lettre autographe signée 1 In-4 11/05/2009 Adresse manuscrite au verso du feuillet. Trois petits manques de papier marginaux, deux pliures horizontales. Amusante lettre calligraphiée, adressée par le dandy américain à son ami et confrère français : "Dear M. Saint Bris, As I was saying, I will hate to have to miss your FÊTE. Our friend Yanou tells me it will be INCOMPARABLE. Have a glorious time." La lettre est illustrée de dessins excentriques au crayon vert, dans le texte. Journaliste et écrivain américain.