Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, First Edition, Signed (9 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine +. 1st Evergreen Edition/3rd Printing tradesize softcover (1988). SIGNED (inscribed) by Selby on half-title page in 1990. tight and square with light rubbing at edges, no spine crease. 304 pages. Note: No International orders for this item. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Printing. A Very Good or better copy in quarter black cloth over red marbled paper boards, in a Near Fine glossy dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 304pp. Famous Beat Era novel, the author's first book. This copy from the collection of author George P. Elliott [1918-1980], with his signature diagonally across the free front endpaper. A few place-keeping dog-ears. Association copy. Q20346.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 304 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Good plus dust jacket. White spine with black and red text. Dust jacket has chipping to spine edges, closed tear to head edge of front cover, and tearing to corners. Textblock has brown stains from verso of dedication page to page 16, writing in pencil on front endpaper, and light brown stain on fore edge. Signed and inscribed by author on title page. Shelved in Room G. Hubert Selby Jr.'s first book. 1372872. Special Collections.

Hard Cover. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 304. Publishers' quarter black cloth with red titles to spine and red paper-covered boards, in unclipped dust-jacket. Cloth lightly toned with very minor nick at central tail of spine. Inner hinge a little cracked at title page but firmly holding; boldly signed and dated (1997) by the Author in black ink to title page. A Very Good copy in a Near Fine dust-jacket. Critically acclaimed first novel by Selby (1928-2004) with themes of drug addiction, brutality and homosexuality leading to a prosecution for obscenity in the UK. The story was later adapted as a film of the same name and along with Requiem for a Dream it remains his best-known work.

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: NEAR FINE. First Edition. SIGNED and inscribed on the FFEP by Selby to photographer and fine-press publisher, Stathis Orphanos, d. 7-27-86. First edition. 304pp. 12mo, red paper over boards backed in black cloth with red stamped spine lettering. Exceedingly clean and sharp, a FINE copy in NF price-clipped jacket with a bluish offset streak at the corners. A nice copy of the Brooklyn writer's first novel. 'A brutal book' about Selby's neighbors in his native Brooklyn, 'the people he writes about with unparalleled vigor and violence: toughs and thugs, soldiers and sailors, pimps and whores, johns and queers, with, on the fringes, the onmnipresent, sullen cops, the dispossessed and downtrodden of the contemporary urban world.' (from the jacket flap).

First edition of Selby's first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Glenn With All Best Wishes H. Selby Jr 6/22/91." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Cover design by Roy Kuhlman. An exceptional example. Hubert Selbyâs fiercely controversial first novel, Last Exit to Brooklyn, shocked many at the time with its stark view of a Brooklyn waterfront neighborhood in the 1950s, yet won select critical regard for its âauthentic power⦠Despite its bleakness, the bookâs underlying message of redemption through self-destruction caught on in a United States about to enter the radical 1960s⦠His prose was all Red Hook, spare, direct, as subtle as a punch in the gut from a heavyweight boxer.â Selby, long weakened by years of illness and drug use, nevertheless lived to finally see his novel reach the screen. Directed by Uli Edel and starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, the 1990 film was hailed as an âuncommonly evocative screen adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr.âs teeming novel⦠an epic of the dispossessedâ (New York Times).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The novel describes the seedy underbelly of the Red Hook waterfront neighborhood in the Brooklyn of the 1950's, which is depicted as a wasteland prowled by drug use, whores and homosexuality. When it was published by Grove Press in 1964, its repulsive language and blast-furnace images made the novel difficult either to accept or reject. The book was the subject of an obscenity trial in the United Kingdom, where prosecutors sought to determine whether it might deprave and corrupt its readers. Selby's power is in his ability to stay with the grotesque aspects of these wretched lives, but not once suggest that they are not capable of love, or worthy of it. Over fifty years on, it seems a more vital work than ever. In days of such human cruelty and pettiness and stupidity, we need reminding that we are all capable of savage compassion as well as the contagion of hatred. In 1989 'Last Exit' was made into a film by the German director Uli Edel, with Jennifer Jason Leigh, Burt Young and Jerry Orbach. At the time of his death in 2004, Mr. Selby, a high school dropout, taught a graduate writing class at the University of Southern California. Near fine with minor edge-wear. First edition, fifth printing, inscribed by the author. Signed by Author(s). book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Stated 1st Edition.INSCRIBED a moi."Dear Harry Love H.Selby Jr.5/22/97".Fine in About Fine D.J.(H3/6) one of the major influences in my life. Inscribed by Author(s).

New York: Grove Press, Inc., (1964). Octavo. 304pp. Hardcover. Textblock's edges with faint soil; near fine in like dustwrapper. First edition, first printing of Selby's novel of lower class Brooklyn during the 1950s with themes of drug use, homosexuality, drag queens, and prostitution. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed: "Dear DougIt is obvious that you are not trapped, But have found the way to a freedom Those looking for an Exit have yet to find. I trust you will continue on your way To fulfillment. Love, H. Selby Jr. 11-13-78." Last Exit was the subject of an obscenity trial in England. It was made into a film in 1989 by the German director Uli Edel.