HINCKLE, Warren

Virginia City, NV: Silver Dollar Books, 1985. First edition. Signed and inscribed by Hinckle on the half-title. Perfect-bound in printed wraps; 8 x 8.75 in., 100pp. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white, with twelve pages of full-color images. In very near fine condition, with a small soft crease to the top front corner. Additionally, laid-in is a xeroxed flyer (8.5 x 11 in., folded once horizontally) announcing a speaking engagement at Valencia Books in San Francisco, part of Hinckle's unsuccessful mayoral campaign of 1987. Hinckle has signed the flyer next to the drawing of himself and his beloved hound dog, Bentley. Gayslayer! is Hinckle's outraged account of the 1978 assassination of city supervisor Harvey Milk and mayor George Moscone by Dan White. A jury notoriously failed to convict White of murder, instead finding him guilty of manslaughter charges for which he served only five years in jail. White committed suicide in 1985, two years after his release, and the same year as