The Day of the Locust

by Nathanael West

$500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

New York: Random House, 1939. First edition. vi , 238 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with paper spine label. Very Good, spine sunned, cloth lightly soiled, slight lean. Lacking dust jacket. A classic novel of the dark, frustrated, and delusional side of Hollywood that introduced a character Homer Simpson, who would vaguely inspire the Simpsons dad by the same name. Item #140943924

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