The Diary of a Rapist (signed copy)

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966.

First Edition. Publisher's black cloth with the excellent unclipped dust-jacket. Signed by author on the titlepage. A fine copy. Novel conceived in the form of a diary; spurned by his wife at home and by superiors at work, Earl Summerfield hunkers down in his cramped San Francisco apartment and keeps a diary that is a record of a world going to pieces. The words he overhears, the words he himself wants to say, swim in his head, turning into fantasies of ambition, love, and retribution. He is sorry for himself. He is angry at the world. He takes to going out at night, slipping into other people's houses. He is looking for something, and he fixes on one woman.