The Purple Decades; A Reader

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Introduction by Joe David Bellamy. Selected by Tom Wolfe. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($17.50), faintly bumped at the top edge. Purple cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A selection of Wolfe's writings from the 1960s and 1970s, including excerpts from Radical Chic and The Right Stuff as well as the entirety of "The Last American Hero," "The Me Decade and the Third Great Awakening," among others.