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WEST, Nathanael (1903-1940). The Day of the Locust. New York: Random House, [1939].
8vo. Original red cloth, printed orange spine label, top stained black (some staining, spine slanted, a touch of wear to extremities); dust jacket (some soiling with spine panel darkened, some chipping with short tears and a few minor losses, especially to spine ends not affecting text).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (stated), with "thought" instead of "though" on p.115. West's classic novel revolves around "Hollywood’s lunatic fringe: the beauty-contest winners from county fairs; the broken-down vaudeville actors and emasculated cowboys... Above all, it is the story of the great mass of bored Middle-Westerners who come to California to die in the sun and find it a long, extremely dull process which they can only alleviate by outbreaks of violence” (front flap). White 5.
Property from the Estate of David Green Jr.
8vo. Original red cloth, printed orange spine label, top stained black (some staining, spine slanted, a touch of wear to extremities); dust jacket (some soiling with spine panel darkened, some chipping with short tears and a few minor losses, especially to spine ends not affecting text).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (stated), with "thought" instead of "though" on p.115. West's classic novel revolves around "Hollywood’s lunatic fringe: the beauty-contest winners from county fairs; the broken-down vaudeville actors and emasculated cowboys... Above all, it is the story of the great mass of bored Middle-Westerners who come to California to die in the sun and find it a long, extremely dull process which they can only alleviate by outbreaks of violence” (front flap). White 5.
Property from the Estate of David Green Jr.
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WEST, Nathanael. The Day of the Locust. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.
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