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A Near Fine first printing of the first Trade edition with page edge soiling housed in a like dust-jacket with mild edgewear. There are some newspaper clippings laid in.

Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full is a brilliantly written, intimate portrait of New York City in the late 1960s. Wolfe paints a vivid and complex picture of the city's inhabitants, from the privileged to the down-and-out, from the artists to the businessmen, from the young and the old. He captures the excitement and turmoil of a time when New York was beginning to reinvent itself and when its inhabitants were forging their own identities.; 8vo; 742 pages; MR.