T.  Mike Walker. 
 
Grove Press: 1969. First edition. Hardcover in a jacket. Octavo. Smudges and marks on the jacket. Shelfwear along the top and bottom of the jacket. Jacket is price clipped. Heel and crown of the spine of the book are a little dimpled. There is one ding along the top of the back board, and the heel, spine, and corners are slightly bumped. A little smudging on the edges of the boards and a little soiling on the endpapers, but the text is very clean. 286 pages. Very good. Signed. 
 
A harrowing and wild tour de force of  a novel. Young, introspective father Danny Tanner joins the San Francisco PD, and what starts as a journal of observations of the lower depths becomes his testament of metamorphosis, dehumanization, and the indifference of brutality. A trip like no other through innocence lost in sixties, from a legendary Santa Cruz writer. 
 
"After working as a clerk-typist for the Police Department for a year during the day while going to college at night, I knew for certain only that now, at last, I would be able to go to college in the daytime and work at night - to finish college at last, and eventually to teach. I silently thanked Lieutenant Matches, who had been my boss in the Bureau of Identification, for suggesting that I try to double my salary and double my fun joining the Department officially, rather than continue to slave as a 'civilian' for $345 a month."