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Lot 335
Sale 1023 - The Library of Jack Charles Davis, Sold to Support Charitable Institutions
May 3, 2022
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WEST, Nathanael (1903-1944). A Cool Million. The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin. New York: Covici Friede, 1934.
8vo. Half-title. Original cloth (some minor spotting); in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (a few small chips, some toning).
FIRST EDITION of West's third novel, a satire of the eternal optimism found in the work of Horatio Alger. "West's particular kind of joking in A Cool Million combined his reading in satiric traditions with the brutal comedy of American burlesque" (Jay West, Nathanael West: The Art of His Life, 1970, p. 237.