The Day of the Locust

by Nathanael West

$17,500 · Offered by Biblioctopus

First edition

New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition. Fine, tight and square endpapers toned as usual from the glue used for the pastedown endpapers in a dustjacket with a 1/4 tear and a 1/8 tear at the top of the spine, and some small rubs, else near fine, particularly bright, and unusually fresh. Item #1242 West's biting satire of Hollywood arrived at the critical cultural moment a decade

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