The Room by Hubert Selby Jr. [FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING] 1971

The Room by Hubert Selby Jr. 

FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [1971] THE GROVE PRESS

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.

Dust jacket is very good and housed in protective mylar jacket.  Some worn edges.  Some fading to spine and a few small sealed tears; piece of tape to underside near spine [see last photo]  Overall, very attractive.  

Book itself is excellent.  Cover with gilded spine that read like new. 

'It is quite an experience to be locked up all by yourself in any size room,'

Secluded in his remand cell, a small-time criminal surrenders himself to sadistic fantasies of hatred and revenge.

Selby's second novel is a claustrophobic descent into the tormented soul of a man trapped in a loveless society; a startling series of recollections and fantasies that illuminate the workings of a prisoner's unhinged mind. He yearns for his violent childhood, rages against obscure authorities, and imagines enacting horrible revenge on those who imprisoned him. The prisoner's remand cell becomes the scene of a surreal mental torture.

Disorienting, nightmarish and structurally inventive, The Room is a shocking examination of the suffering humans can inflict on each other. - Bookshop Apocalypse