The Kandy Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom Wolfe, Pocket
Contributed by Florian Hardwig on Jul 13th, 2025. Artwork published in
September 1973
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The Kandy Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby is the first book by Tom Wolfe, originally published in 1965 with a jacket design by Janet Halverson featuring colorful script lettering. The paperback edition by Pocket Books initially used script lettering, too, albeit in black and in a less elaborate rendering.
Starting around the 10th printing from 1973, it was superseded by a typographic solution using Bauhaus Prisma. Ed Benguiat multiline extension of his Bauhaus Geometric comes in sixteen variants. The one used here, Bauhaus Prisma N, has bold solid letterforms decorated with a pair of hairlines. The latter were separated and printed in tangerine red, thus resembling the stripes on candy canes.
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The placement of the image inside a circle – showing the “Tempted Once” 1931 Ford show coupé hot-rodded by Larry Farris in the early 1960s – resembles the cover designs used by Bantam for their books by Wolfe: