New York: Dial Press, 1969. Inscribed by Author; Black cloth. A fine copy, Dust jacket has a one inch creased tear to upper inner corner of front panel, small corner crease to front flap, else fine, flap price intact, no sunning to the yellow spine. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to a Toronto impresario who brought him there for a reading in 1992, with his 1992 ink ownership signature above.. The author's first book, a novel about a newspaper strike in Albany, New York, the first of his many novels set there. ; Signed by Author