Description: They Shoot Horses, Don't They? By Horace McCoy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1935, first edition, second printing, original dust jacket, 186 pp, 8 x 5". In good condition. Dust jacket is missing head of spine - title still legible. Hinges exhibit scuffing and rubbing on dust jacket as well. Cloth boards exhibit light foxing at top edge. Top edge painted red. Cloth spine lightly toned. Age-staining to both front and rear paste-downs and end-pages. Light foxing on title page. Front gutter beginning to split at top of title page. No known previous ownership or marginalia. Binding tight and intact. Please see photos. Horace Stanley McCoy (1897-1955) was an American writer whose mostly hardboiled stories took place during the Great Depression. His best known novel is They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, which was made into a movie of the same name in 1969, fourteen years after McCoy's death. McCoy was born in Pegram, Tennessee, and during WWI, he served in the US Army Air Corps. He was wounded in battle and received the Croix de Guerre for heroism from the government of France. McCoy moved to Hollywood, CA and appeared in a short "The Hollywood Handicap" in 1932. He worked a number of odd jobs, including washing cars, picking lettuce in the Imperial Valley, and serving as a bouncer at a Santa Monica pier. The bouncer job inspired this novel, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? which chronicles a Depression-era dance marathon. As a screen-writer, McCoy wrote westerns, crime melodramas, and other films for various studios. His other novels include: No Pockets in a Shroud (1937), I Should Have Stayed Home (1938), Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1948), Scalpel (1952), and Corruption City (completed by a ghostwriter and published posthumously in 1959). This is a first edition, second printing with the original dust jacket. Rare. Able to be read. RAREA1935AMOBHK329
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Author: Horace McCoy
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Topic: Literature
Subject: Literature & Fiction
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