MCCOY, Horace

I Should Have Stayed Home

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); yellow cloth titled in maroon on spine; maroon topstain; 236pp. Tiny bookseller's ticket on rear endpaper; spine is sunned; faint finger-soiling to covers; spine ends pushed; rear hinge cracked with webbing exposed. Very Good, lacking the dustjacket. Author's third novel. A boy and a girl, stage-struck movie extras, try to satisfy their ambitions in Hollywood, but the corruption they find is too much for them on top of their continuing poverty and hunger. HUBIN, p.266; BAIRD 1596.

Price: $50.00

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