The Dice Man

New York: William Morrow & Co., (1971). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 305 pp. Original octavo white cloth over charcoal paper-covered boards, stamped in black, in original unclipped ($6.95) dust-jacket. Edge wear with chipping, wrinkling, fraying to spine ends and corners rubbing and scuffs. Moderate spot soiling and general toning. Protected in archival mylar. Book is moderately square and has been read. Rubbing and wear to edges with smudges to panels and small bumps to corners. Light curling to spine ends. Page edges toned with foxing to top text block. Remainder mark to top edge. Interior clean and unmarked.

Dust Jacket: Good

Hardcover: Good

“The Dice Man is a 1971 novel by American novelist George Cockcroft, writing under the pen name, "Luke Rhinehart". The book tells the story of a psychiatrist who makes daily decisions based on the casting of a diсe. Cockcroft describes the origin of the title idea variously in interviews, once recalling a college "quirk" he and friends used to decide "what they were going to do that night" based on a die-roll, or sometimes to decide between mildly mischievous pranks. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy user site describes the novel as a book that was viewed as subversive, as having "anti-psychiatry sentiment", and as "reflecting the mood of the early 1970s in permissiveness". It has content that includes the protagonist's decisions to engage in rape and murder, and is described as having been "banned in several countries".