BACK TO BLOOD

New York: Little Brown & Co., 2012. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. The last of Wolfe's four novels ("Bonfire of the Vanities," "A Man in Full," "I Am Charlotte Simmons") features among others, a newly promoted Miami marine police officer, a Cuban mayor, a pair of Wasp Yale-graduate newspaper types, and a sex-addiction, sexually-addicted psychiatrist, all operating in a Miami viewed by many as the American city of the future. First edition, first printing (as stated, with complete numberline). About 6 x 9 1/2 inches, 703 pages in red-brown paper-covered boards with Wolfe's name stamped on front cover, and title and author in gold lettering on spine. The dustjacket's front panel shows title and author in white lettering against a abstract pictorial design showing a city scape sandwiched between a brown and gold sky and two-shades-of-blue ocean. Back panel contains full-color, full-panel photo of Wolfe. There is a single, tiny, light brown stain (probably coffee or tea) that appears to have been a single drop that grazed the bottom edge of both covers and dj panels and a few pages of text. That's it. O/w boards, text and dj are all in fine condition. No tears, scratches, chipping or creasing. Not ex-library, not remaindered. "Back To Blood" was not well received by the critics but if you like Tom Wolfe's narrative style, you'll like this work.