The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby.

WOLFE, Tom.

Item Number: 3878

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965.

First edition of the author’s first book that launched New Journalism. Octavo, original white cloth. Lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Jere Real With best wishes and why don’t you newspaper guys get anything right- Right! See you in the Village Tom Wolfe.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket with just a touch of shelfwear.

The now famous "Kandy" memorandum enabled Wolfe to recognize that feature journalism--in particular, magazine writing--could achieve added depth and realism by fusing the stylistic features of fiction and the reportorial obligations of journalism to form a "novelistic-sounding"--but still factually constrained--literature. This discovery would impel a receptive Wolfe to further cross traditional journalistic boundaries once the strike was settled at the New York Herald Tribune and he returned to work as a feature writer. "An excellent work by a genius" (Kurt Vonnegut).