LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN

Selby, Hubert Jr.

Published by Grove, 1964

About this Item

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).

Seller Inventory # 503936

Bibliographic Details

• Title: LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN
• Publisher: Grove
• Publication Date: 1964
• Binding: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: FINE
• Dust Jacket Condition: NEAR FINE
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fine and Rare