"ASTONISHING, ENLIGHTENING… EXPLOSIVELY FUNNY": FIRST EDITION OF TOM WOLFE'S ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST

WOLFE, Tom. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1968). Octavo, original white cloth, original dust jacket. $950.

First edition of Wolfe's lively "celebration of psychedelia," a handsome copy in the colorful Milton Glaser dust jacket.

"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test… is to the hippie movement what Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night was to the Vietnam protest movement. Wolfe is precisely the right author to chronicle the transformation of Ken Kesey from respected author of And One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest to an LSD enthusiast, to the messianic leader of a mystical band of Merry Pranksters, to a fugitive from the FBI, California police and Mexican Federales. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is a celebration of psychedelia, of all its sounds and costumes, colors and fantasies… It is an astonishing, enlightening, at times baffling and explosively funny book" (New York Times). "It really is one hell of a special book, you know—a lifechanger, a rabble-rouser, a mind-blower, a gathering of the tribes, a call to arms, a manifesto for a new society, a car repair manual, a fly on the paisley-patterned wall account of a cultural revolution—a masterpiece!" (Jarvis Cocker, "How Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Changed My Life"). With "First Printing, 1968" on copyright page. Dust jacket designed by Milton Glaser.

Book with slight discoloration to edges, vibrant dust jacket with minor rubbing to extremities and tiny closed tear at spine head. A bright, near-fine copy.