COL49 Paperback Cover

[Wolfe, Skip]

>>I've still got that particular paperback copy, currently put away because
>>60s paperback bindings are notoriously feeble.  Working off of a late-80s
>>reprint now.  But yes, TRP, in the 60s, was marketed as a 60s writer.

So was everybody else, I think.  I seem to remember a particularly lurid 
paperback cover for Kerouac's _On The Road_ emphasizing "sex" "drugs" 
"kicks" et cetera -- might even have called him the "original hippie." 
   And _Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me_ by TRP's buddy Richard 
Farina was pretty suggestive too, as I recall (I still have the book, but 
the cover has long since disintegrated).  In fact I bought it for the sex 
content the cover promised, to read during a long bus trip, and was shocked 
when I found it actually had some literary merit.