In Our Time (Signed)

1stedn; 4to. purple cloth and pale violet boards, with gilt spine titles. Prevowner seal to fep, a few small chips, rubs to bottom of dj ow VG/vg unclippt dj:119pp, with b/w illustrations by Wolfe. Wolfe comments on issues of the day in these short essays combined with dozens of pages of his own cartoon drawings. Boldly SIGNED w flourishes by Wolfe on the front endpaper/ Includes chapters on Stiffened Giblets; Entr'actes and Canapes; In Our Time; The Man Who Always Peaked Too Soon; Portraits; The World of Art; The Bohemian Hedge, California, England, and New York. Special thanks were given to Harper's where the feature called "In Our Time" originates, and where the drawings on pages 2, 6, 12, 24-54, and 70 first appeared. Tom Wolfe introduces us to the inhabitants of this cockeyed landscape--The New Cookie, ''the girl in her twenties for whom the American male now customarily shucks his wife of two to four decades when the electrolysis gullies appear above her upper lip"; The Modern Mother, who is more childish than her children; The Fondly Trusting Father as he first opens the door to his daughter's coed dorm room. Most of the drawings in this volume were done over the past three years, but the book also provides a retrospective of Wolfe's twenty-three years as a graphic artist.…