Bonfire Vanities by Tom Wolfe, Signed (49 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Reprint. G: in good condition without dust jacket as issued. Cover rubbed and creased. 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). 730pp. Signed by author on fep.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. UK paperback reprint, SIGNED to title page with name only. Near fine condition. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed/17th printing. Signed on free front end paper. 1 corner of rear cover bumped. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dust jacket in very good condition. First edition, second printing. SIGNED and inscribed by the author. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Personally inscribed by Tom Wolfe on the front end page. Minor wear to the dust jacket. Light wear to the boards. Sound binding. Clean interior pages. New mylar added to the dust jacket. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 2.5. signed and inscribed by author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good in a very good dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper with an elaborate three-color signature. A later printing. A minor amount of rubbing apparent along the top and bottom edged of the boards. Slight soiling on page ends due to age. Dust jacket is very slightly yellowed, with slight rubbing at the corners and spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Wolfe to previous owner! Original hardcover in jacket, first printing stated, original price of $19.95 still present on jacket flap. Jacket is in protective mylar sleeve. Condition: book is solid and bright with light reference wear to pages, some dust spotting to outer page edges. Jacket has light wear along edges with light chipping to top of spine; quite bright in protective mylar. Please note: the previous owner name is not shown in photograph, but is present on page above author signature.Overall, a very nice first trade edition signed - collectible. Inscribed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Fred Marcellino (D/J Design) (illustrator). 1st Edition. The Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe, was a sensation when it was first published in 1987. As a result, many printings of all descriptions came from the presses. I remember buying the paperback at London Airport and I enjoyed it immensely. It was subsequently made into a film starring Tom Hanks and Bruce Willis in 1990 that failed to capture the full intent of Wolfe's masterful expose of Wall St and New York, and the endless human comedic situations that the main character, Sherman McCoy, managed to enmesh himself in. The book is a first edition, first printing, as stated in the book. The D/W is in fine, as new, condition and is enclosed in an expertly fitted, clear, plastic cover. It is not price clipped, the price, $19.95 is on the top RHS of the inside front flap. The book appears to be unread, and the pages are in pristine, white condition. Tom Wolfe's signature is displayed at the bottom of the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. SIGNED COPY, Jonathan Cape 1988 1st uk edition, dustjacket very good with light wear, front sleeve clipped, boards very good, signed on front end paper by Tom Wolfe, internally slightly age tanned but otherwise generally clean and good. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression, signed with characteristic flourish by Tom Wolfe. Fine: tight and square binding in mauve coloured boards and grey cloth; a touch of toning to the heel of the spine; else excellent - very bright, crisp and clean, preseting as unread. The unclipped dustwrapper ($19.95 stated) is Near Fine: crisp and vibrant; minor wrinkling to the spine tips and corners; a small chip to the lower spine corner; a clean 3cm knife slit to the front panel, sealed to the verso with archival mending tissue; presented in a removable, archival-quality Brodart protective cover. A handsome copy. All orders are sent very carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and sturdy cardboard. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is a First Edition Tom Wolfe hardback, The Bonfire of the Vanities. It is in Very Good condition - all pages are extremely clean, with slight yellowing on the edge. The dust jacket is in good condition, clipped inside as pictured. The book is signed by author with no inscription message. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First Edition; Second Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. ; Signed by author on FEP. ; 9.3 X 6.8 X 2.2 inches; 672 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: New. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Hardcover in slipcase, sealed in original shrink wrap. Edition of 250 copies. Signed by Author(s).

Leather Bound. Condition: Very Good. Signed! Book has the tiniest of bumps to lower right corners (if you look very carefully), some light scratches and rubbing to gilt textblock. otherwise a very nice copy, clean and bright, with a solid binding and clean pages. Photos on request.

Leather Bound. Condition: Fine. Signed. First Edition. First ed, stated. SIGNED by author. Sealed in publisher's shrink wrap, never opened. Minor edge wear may be present due to storage, overall NF.

hardcover. Condition: fine. limited. First SIGNED limited edition, leather-bound. Fine condition.

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, 659 pages. In Near Fine Condition. Bound in brown leather with gilt text. All edges dyed gilt. Sewn in beige silk bookmark. Silk end paper. Signed by Wolfe. Wrapped in air tight plastic. Shelved in hallway. 1388988. Special Collections.

Condition: Fine. Frontispiece by the author (illustrator). Signed limited first edition. Signed by Wolfe on prelim. Full dark mauve leather, decoratively gilt, aeg.

First edition. Hardcover. A special edition from the Signed First Edition Society. Contains a special message from Wolfe not present in the trade edition. One of the better novels to capture the zeitgeist of the 1980's. Made into a movie with Bruce Willis, Tom Hanks, Morgan Freeman and Melanie Griffith. A very fine copy in decorated full leather binding with all edges gilt and a silk book marker. Signed by Wolfe. As new and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Frontispiece by the author. Limited first edition. SIGNED by the author. Publisher's letter laid in. Thick octavo, fully bound in purple leather with gilt lettering and design, raised bands along spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, sewn-in ribbon book mark. Near fine. ; 659 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed limited for the members of The Signed First Edition Society on first free end paper. Full tan leather boards with gilt lettering on spine and gilt edges, satin end pages with silk place ribbon. No dust jacket as issued.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Author(s): Tom Wolfe Title: Bonfire of The Vanities Publication: New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1987 Edition: 9th Impression, signed by author and inscribed Description: Octavo, 659pp., publishers red boards bound in gray cloth with silver gilt details. Ninth printing stated on copyright page. Signed by wolfe to Connie on front free end paper. Dust jacket with $19.95 price present. A VG book with some age toning to page edges very slight loosening to back board, small scuff to bottom text block, no writing within, nice gilt lettering to spine, sharp corners. Jacket in VG + with some age toning and edge wear. Not price clipped and now in mylar! A very nice example of Wolfes first novel. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First British edition in very good condition inscribed and signed by Wolfe on the front endpaper. Pages are very tanned as is common with this issue. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover, in dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Humorously inscribed by Wolfe to his friend Gary on the ffep. Postcard with picture of Wolfe laid in. Small stain top edge, slight pull at spine head, else near fine in near fine dust jacket, in mylar cover.

Leather. Condition: Mint. No Jacket. Wolfe, Tom {Frontispiece} (illustrator). Signed, First Edition. This limited signed first edition has been bound in a deep purple leather with gilt lettering and decoration of the spine and boards. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon place marker. Appears as never read. Author has signed center of ffep, blue ink. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. Limited.

Condition: Very Good. Tom Wolfe (illustrator). 8vo pp.659. SIGNED by author Tom Wolfe on FEP. Full gilt-embossed, decorated dark burgundy leather, 3 raised bands, Marbled endpapers, satin ribbon, AEG. From the Signed First Edition Society. Signed by Author. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition with a worn spine inscribed by Wolfe on the first title page. Patterned discoloration to the front endpaper where a newspaper article was laid in. Overall, a very good copy. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing), issued a year after the considerably more common US edition. This copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper with his splendid flowing penmanship. 8vo. 659pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. A trace of light toning to the leaf margins, else a fine copy in dust wrapper, clipped and re-priced by the publisher, lightly creased at the head of the spine panel, and with perhaps a shade of fading to the publisher's orange spine panel lettering. A superb inscribed copy of the author's first novel, perhaps the quintessential novel of the 1980s (signed and inscribed copies of this UK edition are much scarcer than the US edition). Inscribed by Author(s).

Second printing of the author's first novel. Octavo, original publisher's half cloth, bookplate to the front pastedown from âThe Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright.â The collector, Madeleine K. Albright, was the first woman to serve as the U.S. Secretary of State. She acted under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001, leading the United States through foreign policy in the Middle East with the endorsement of military action in Iraq. At the 1998 NATO summit, Albright coined the â3 Dsâ of NATO, âwhich is no diminution of NATO, no discrimination and no duplication â" because I think that we donât need any of those three âDsâ to happen.â After her tenure as Secretary of State, she served as chair of the consulting Albright Stonebridge Group and was the Michael and Virginia Mortara Endowed Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown Universityâs School of Foreign Service. For Albrightâs contributions to foreign policy and relations that defined a century, President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. Near fine in a near fine price- clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Fred Marcellino. 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).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 11th Printing [stated]. [12], 659, [1] pages. DJ is price clipped. Signed by the author on the front end paper. Clipping from signing event laid in. Contains Prologue and Epilogue, as well as chapters on The Master of the Universe; Gibraltar; From the Fiftieth Floor; King of the Jungle; The Girl with Brown Lipstick; A Leader of the People; Catching the Fish; The Case; Some Brit Named Fallow; Saturday's Saturnine Lunchtime; The Words on the Floor; The Last of the Great Smokers; The Day-Glo Eel; I Don't know How to Lie; The Masque of the Red Death; Tawkin Irish; The Favor Bank; Shuhmun; Donkey Loyalty; Calls from Above; The Fabulous Koala; Styrofoam Peanuts; Inside the Cavity; The Informants; We the Jury; Death New York Style; Hero of the Hive; Off to a Better Place; The Rendezvous; An Able Pupil; Into the Solar Plexus; and Epilogue/ Financier Is Arraigned. Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first novel, is a young investment Banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan. When he is involved in a freak accident in the Bronx, prosecutors, politicians, the press, the police, the clergy, and assorted hustlers high and low close in on him, licking their chops and giving us a gargantuan helping of the human comedy of New York, a city boiling over with racial and ethnic hostilities and burning with the itch to Grab It Now. Wolfe's gallery ranges from Wall Street, where people in their thirties feel like small-fry if they're not yet making a million per, to the real streets, where the aim is lower but the itch is just as virulent. Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was a contributing editor to Harper's. Some of his most influential writings were published in that magazine, including "The Painted Word," "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast," and "From Bauhaus to Our House." His essays and journalism, as elegant as the figure he cut, have greatly enhanced the esteem Harper's has enjoyed over the past half century. Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930 - May 14, 2018) 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. Wolfe began his career as a regional newspaper reporter in the 1950s, achieving national prominence in the 1960s following the publication of such best-selling books as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (a highly experimental account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters) and two collections of articles and essays, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. In 1979, he published the influential book The Right Stuff about the Mercury Seven astronauts, which was made into a 1983 film of the same name directed by Philip Kaufman. His first novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, published in 1987, was met with critical acclaim and also became a commercial success. It was adapted as a major motion picture of the same name directed by Brian De Palma. Derived from a Kirkus review: Sheer entertainment against a fabulous background, proving that late-blooming first-novelist Wolfe, a superobserver of the social scene, has the right stuff for fiction. Undertaken as a serial for Rolling Stone, his magnum opus hits the ball far, far, far out of the park. Son of Park Avenue wealth, Sherman McCoy at 35 is perhaps the greatest bond salesman on Wall Street, and eats only the upper crust. But millionaire Sherman's constant inner cry is that he is "hemorrhaging money." He's also a jerk, ripe for humiliation; and when his humiliation arrives, it is fearsome. Since this is also the story of The Law as it applies to rich and poor, especially to blacks and Hispanics of the Bronx, Wolfe has a field day familiarizing the reader with the politics and legal machinations that take place in the Bronx County Courthouse, a fortress wherein Sherman McCoy becomes known as the Great White Defendant. One evening, married Sherman picks up his $100-million mistress Maria at Kennedy Airport, gets lost bringing her back in his $48,000 Mercedes-Benz, is attacked by two blacks on a ramp in the Bronx. When Maria jumps behind the wheel, one black is hit by the car. Later, he lapses into a terminal coma, but not before giving his mother part of Sherman's license plate. This event is hyped absurdly by an alcoholic British reporter for the The City Light, the mugger becomes an "honor student," and Sherman becomes the object of vile racist attacks mounted by a charlatan black minister. Chunk by chunk, Sherman loses every footing in his life but gains his manhood. Meanwhile, Wolfe triumphantly mounts scene after magnificent scene depicting the vanity of human endeavor, with every character measured by his shoes and suits or dresses, his income and expenses, and with his vain desires rising in smoke against settings that would make a Hollywood director's tongue hang out. Often hilarious, and much, much more.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. First printing. Signed by the author on the first free endpaper. A fine copy in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. A most desirable example of the era-defining 80's classic. Signed by Author(s).