Last Exit to Brooklyn. London: Calder, 1966. First UK Edition. Pp, 234. Grey boards in original black dust jacket, which is worn at edges. Previous owner’s name to front free endpaper.

Described by various reviewers as hellish and obscene, Last Exit to Brooklyn tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature. It has since become a cult classic.

‘Last Exit to Brooklyn will explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America, and still be eagerly read in 100 years’ Allen Ginsberg