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. Light edge wear, particular to spine ends, corners, tips. Light handling and shelf wear, rubbing, surface nicks. Trace soiling to spine foot. Protected in archival mylar. Book is moderately tight, square and firm. Light handling, shelf wear to panels. Page edges mildly toned with a few tiny nicks, smudges to edges. Light curling to spine ends, rubbing to corners, trace fading along panel edges. Bookmark indentation left from page 189. Interior clean and unmarked sans small pencil notation to ffep. Signed, dedicated and dated by the author in his widely known nickname “Cubby'“ to the front free endpaper. Scarce.

Dust Jacket: Near Fine

Hardcover: Near Fine

“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.”