The Day of the Locust

New York: Random House, (1939).

Price: $5,000.00

Hardcover. First edition. Slightly cocked and the paper spine label is a trifle darkened from binder's glue, both flaws which seem endemic to the book, else near fine in a bright, very good dustwrapper with small chips at the top of the front panel, and at the crown, but which has been spared the professional restoration that most copies we have seen lately seem to have undergone. The timeless and quintessential Hollywood novel in which West explores the frustration, violence, and savagery beneath the glamour and glitz. Increasingly scarce. Interesting Hollywood provenance, available on request.

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Item #92350 The Day of the Locust. Nathanael WEST.
The Day of the Locust

Nathanael West
birth name: Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein
born: 10/17/1903
died: 12/22/1940

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American writer best known for satiric novels of the 1930s. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore