The Demon by Hubert Selby Jr. [FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING] 1976

  The Demon by Hubert Selby Jr.  FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [1976] PLAYBOY PRESS Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition. Dust jacket has wear but is fully in tact; housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector.  Tear to top-left corner and a fully sealed tear along bottom edge with some surrounding creasing.  Spine has some fading well as fraying to edges, mostly up top.  Back of dust jacket however is excellent and shows virtually no wear.   Book itself is immaculate.  Looks and reads like new.  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 w