The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 1968. Second printing, in year of publication. Original cloth boards (titled in psychedelic colours to the spine), dustjacket, pp viii, 413, ii. Top edge of boards damaged/heavily rubbed, small mark upper edge lower board, some fading as usual to blue top edge with a few marks otherwise very good condition, small water mark to upper front d.j. with light wrinkling to rear, very good protected dustjacket (with original price $5.95 to front flap and photograph of Tom Wolfe (rear panel). Contents clean. Very good. The most famous book of New Journalism, and often considered the essential book about hippies and the counter-cultural movement of the 1960s. The book is a first-hand account of the experiences of Ken Kesey and a group of psychedelic enthusiasts known as the Merry Pranksters, including their use of psychedelic drugs. 2nd impression. Boards in d.j..