"The Bonfire Of The Vanities" 1987 WOLFE, Tom Velvet longtime visitor Pamela Fiori shares

longtime visitor Pamela Fiori shares with readers the heritage of this tropical paradise

Classic pen & ink on paper drawing depicting a sartorially resplendent/ dapper gent sporting a peak lapel/ white dinner jacket

and medicine cabinets - is sublimely cataloged in this nostalgic look at the clever

gorgeously colored mosaics

"The Bonfire Of The Vanities" 1987 WOLFE, Tom Velvet longtime visitor Pamela Fiori sharesWOLFE, Tom [659] pp. Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1987 First Printing 9 1 2" x 6 3 8" Fine Fine Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first novel, is a young investment banker with a fourteen room apartment in Manhattan. When he is involved in a freak accident in the Bronx, prosecutors, politicians, the press, the police, the clergy, and assorted hustlers high and low close in on him, licking their chops and giving us a gargantuan helping of