The Day of the Locust. by WEST, Nathanael - 1939

New York: Random House,, 1939. The quintessential critique of Hollywood in exemplary condition First edition, first printing, an outstanding example of the author's final novel in the dust jacket and rare thus. The work "remains the best of the hundreds of Hollywood novels written before the 1970s. F. Scott Fitzgerald, who was himself working on The Last Tycoon, said that the novel had 'scenes of extraordinary power'" (ODNB). Hollywood adapted it for the screen in 1975, starring Donald Sutherland. Octavo. Original red cloth, orange printed paper spine label, top edge black. With dust jacket. Book fresh; vivid jacket with faintest hint of spine sunning, mild rubbing and one or two nicks, unclipped: a fine copy in fine dust jacket.