The Day of the Locust

CENSUS CLAIM CONFIRMED. US Random House (New York, 1939) is the true first. The first English edition is Grey Walls Press, London, 1951 — 207 pp. plus blank, publisher's dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at the spine, issued in dust jacket — published eleven years after the American first and after West's death. Both editions are collected and both should be named. The census's framing of this title as completing the West canon alongside Miss Lonelyhearts is a collecting observation, not a bibliographic point.