New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1983.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first novel (preceded by three collections of short stories), letters from a serial killer to Truman Capote, the author of 'In Cold Blood.' Association copy with a very long inscription to a fellow writer filling the entire front endpaper "For the one, the only one, the very, very one person of YOUTH. . . who makes me laugh! Except it's chiefly, maybe even exclusively, because she is in possession of the wit, the insight," and so on for several more lines - SIGNED "with love and kisses" and dated in the year of publication. 268 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0614775.