The Demon by Hubert Selby Jr. [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1976 • Playboy Press

The Demon by Hubert Selby Jr. 

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1976] PLAYBOY PRESS

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good reading condition.

Dust jacket is worn, but fully in tact: a few torn edges; and several sealed edge tears with some heavy creasing along lower front.   Back of dust jacket however is excellent and shows virtually no wear.  

Housed in a new custom fit-jacket protector!

Book itself is pristine!  Near mint with a few minuscule spots to text block.

Looks and reads like new. 

ABOUT THE BOOK

Harry White is a man haunted by a satyr's lust and an obsessive need for sin and retribution. The more Harry succeeds -- a good marriage, a good corporate job -- the more desperate he becomes, as a life of petty crime leads to fraud and murder and, eventually, to apocalyptic violence.

Author of the controversial cult classics, Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream, Hubert Selby began as a writer of short fiction. He plunges the reader head-first into the densely realized worlds of his protagonists, in which the details of daily life rub shoulders with obsession and madness. Although fundamentally concerned with morality, Selby's own sense of humility prevents him from preaching. He offers instead a passionate empathy with the ordinary dreams and aspirations of his characters, a brilliant ear for the urban vernacular and for the voices of conscience and self-deceit that torment his characters. - Bookshop Apocalypse