Signed book: The Painted Word. First edition. NY: Farar, Straus and Giroux, 1975. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5 x 8.25, 121 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first free end page in black felt tip to his close friend, the celebrated artist Richard Merkin, "For Richard Merkin, this cornflower in the lapel of the Higher Truth, from Tom Wolfe." In very good to fine condition, with toning to the dust jacket, a dinged upper right corner to each page in the book, and a JSA label affixed to the rear of the signed page. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from JSA.
Upon Merkin's death in 2009, Wolfe wrote to the New York Times: 'He was the greatest of that breed, the Artist Dandy, since Sargent, Whistler and Dali... Like Dali, he had one of the few remaining Great Mustaches in the art world.'
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