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The Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
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.
Synopsis
The Day of the Locust is a 1939 novel by American author Nathanael West, set in Hollywood, California during the Great Depression, depicting the alienation and desperation of a disparate group of individuals who exist at the fringes of the movie industry. Time Magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005, and noted critic Harold Bloom included it in his list of canonical works in the book The Western Canon.
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Details
- Seller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 28566
- Title
- The Day of the Locust
- Author
- Nathanael West
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
Glossary
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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