The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West, 1950 oversized large book first published in 1911

first published in 1911

Condition: Hardcover with Modern Library dust jacket

particularly on the endpapers and some early pages

featuring full-color photographs by Hillel Burger of the glass botanical models created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka between 1887 and 1936

planting and pruning

The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West, 1950 oversized large book first published in 1911**Who wrote it** The Day of the Locust was written by Nathanael West and published by New Directions in 1950, with an introduction by Richard B. Gehman. The novel was first published in 1939, the same year West died in a car accident at age thirty seven. The book design is by Maurice Serle Kaplan. **What it's about** A Hollywood novel, but not a glamorous one. West's Los Angeles is filled with people who came for a dream and found something else