The Diary of a Rapist (signed copy) vows Contents clean and crisp

Contents clean and crisp

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The Diary of a Rapist (signed copy) vows Contents clean and crispNew 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