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Last Exit to Brooklyn
by Selby, Hubert, Jr
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: Grove Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated first printing hardcover. Inscribed by Selby to the half title page in the year 2000. Tape ghosts to front cover and endpages. Corners lightly bumped, block edge lightly stained. Firm binding. The DJ in mylar is toned/creased to spine with short tears to crown and minor crimp to heel, and two short tape bits to verso. Flap price $5.00. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
Synopsis
Last Exit to Brooklyn is a 1964 novel by American author Hubert Selby, Jr. The novel has become a cult classic because of its harsh, uncompromising look at lower class Brooklyn in the 1950s and for its brusque, everyman style of prose. Although critics and fellow writers praised the book on its release, Last Exit to Brooklyn caused much controversy due to its frank portrayals of taboo subjects, such as drug use, street violence, gang rape, homosexuality, transvestism and domestic violence.
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Details
- Bookseller
- curtis paul books inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36565
- Title
- Last Exit to Brooklyn
- Author
- Selby, Hubert, Jr
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1964
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
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