Last Exit to Brooklyn

New York: Grove Press, (1964). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 304 pp. Original red boards over quarter black cloth, stamped in red, in original unclipped ($5.00) dust-jacket. Mild edge wear, particular to spine ends, corners, tips. Handling and shelf wear, with rubbing, surface nicks and light wrinkles. A few small tears to jacket edges. Spine lightly faded. Protected in archival mylar. Book is moderately tight, square and firm. Mild handling, shelf wear present to panels. Page edges lightly toned with a few tiny nicks to edges. Light curling to spine ends, rubbing to corners, bottom corners nudged. Interior clean and unmarked sans old pencil price to ffep.

Dust Jacket: Very Good

Hardcover: Very Good

“Last Exit to Brooklyn is a 1964 novel by American author Hubert Selby Jr. The novel takes a harsh, uncompromising look at lower class Brooklyn in the 1950s written in a brusque, everyman style of prose. Critics and fellow writers praised the book on its release. Due to its frank portrayals of taboo subjects, such as drug use, street violence, gang rape, homophobia, prostitution and domestic violence it was the subject of an obscenity trial in the United Kingdom and was banned in Italy.”