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West, Nathanael, The Day of the Locust, 1939. New York, Random House.
West, Nathanael, The Day of the Locust, 1939. New York, Random House.
West, Nathanael, The Day of the Locust, 1939. New York, Random House.

West, Nathanael

The Day of the Locust, 1939. New York, Random House.
“Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous.”

First edition, first printing of West’s great Hollywood novel, in the original dustjacket.

$ 6,000.00
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8vo (203 mm x 123 mm). 1 [blank], 3 ff., 238 pp., 1 [blank]. Original red cloth with orange printed spine label, top edge black, unclipped dustjacket with price of $2.00 on the front flap. Light wear and rubbing to dustjacket, but spared the professional restoration that most copies seem to have undergone, owner’s pen signature to front free endpaper offset to inner flap of dustjacket, light owner’s stamp to dedication page, otherwise a remarkably fresh copy.
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