A Cool Million. The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin

by Nathanael West

$2,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

First Edition. 229pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original tan cloth, dust jacket with significant losses. Panels of another copy of the dust jacket mounted on the endpapers, bookplate removed. White #4. Item #329402 A Voltairean satire by one of the most acid observers of the American dream, this a Horatio Alger story if Alger had read Kafka or Melville's later works. Scarce in dust jacket.

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