Diary of a Mad Housewife: A Novel.

KAUFMAN, Sue [Richard Benjamin].

$2,800.00

Item Number: 124902

New York : Random House, 1967.

First edition of this classic, bestselling novel of Central Park West ennui — and a seminal piece of urban women’s fiction. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, ‘To Kornby with love Sue Kaufman.” Additionally signed by actor Richard Benjamin, who starred in the film bearing the same name. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Larry Ratzkin. Rare and desirable signed.

Made into a major motion picture that garnered an Oscar nomination, Diary of a Mad Housewife is a classic of women's fiction that gave a wry voice to the nascent feminist stirrings of the 1960s and helped incite a revolution in the consciousness of a generation. It is the basis for the 1970 film starring Carrie Snodgress, Richard Benjamin and Frank Langella.