The Pump House Gang.

WOLFE, Tom.

Item Number: 102872

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968.

First edition of this collection of essays, published the same day as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Tom Wolfe on the title page. Near fine in a very good jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser.

The Pump House Gang is a 1968 collection of essays and journalism by Tom Wolfe. The stories in the book explored various aspects of the counterculture of the 1960s. The most famous story in the collection, from which the book takes its name, is about Jack Macpherson and his gang of surfers that frequented a sewage pump house at Windansea Beach in La Jolla, California.