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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. (c.1976). First Edition. Hardcover. [a good sound copy, page edges tanned but no significant shelfwear; jacket lightly worn at edges and extremities, foil-like surface a bit rubbed, one small closed tear at top of rear panel (NOTE that the scanned image accompanying this listing makes the jacket look a little more beat-up than it appears to the eye, especially in a new mylar cover)]. The second of the author's two published books (the first was his autobiographical "Ringolevio"), a novel detailing the exploits of "an unlikely gang of thieves bent on a thirteen-step caper of staggering audacity." Grogan (1942-1978) was a well-known Bay Area figure, a co-founder of the radical San Francisco community-action group the Diggers; he died of a heart attack (possibly brought on by a heroin overdose) in 1978 at the age of 35. .