The Day of the Locust

New York: Random House, 1939. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo. 238 pp. Illustrated book club dust jacket with no price present. Red cloth boards with title label to spine; dark topstain. Ex-library, though with relatively few markings. Dust jacket lightly foxed and rubbed along edges and free of institutional markings. Boards show moderate edgewear; spine faded; general soiling and scuffing. Binding is sound. Institutional stamp to bottom edge of text block (mostly erased by previous owner); jacket remnants, tape repair, and library stamp to endpapers; inner half of rear endpaper pasted down to pastedown; some marginal staining; pages else unmarked. Still a Very Good and presentable copy of West's classic and devastating Hollywood novel.