The Purple Decades

Tom Wolfe. New York: Farra, Straus & Giroux, 1982. VG hardcover in a VG, unclipped dust jacket, 396 pp. Jacket design by Muriel Nasser. 

A collectible first edition of The Purple Decades by Tom Wolfe—one of the most influential voices of 20th-century American journalism and literature.

Published by Farrar Straus and Giroux in 1982, this stated first printing brings together Wolfe’s most important essays chronicling the cultural upheavals of the 1960’s and 1970’s. The collection includes selections from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Radical Chic, and The Right Stuff, showcasing Wolfe’s signature style and cultural insight.

A highly collectible volume for readers and collectors of New Journalism, American cultural history, and Tom Wolfe first editions.