WEST, Nathanael (1903-1940). Miss Lonelyhearts. New York: Greenberg Publishers, [1933].

8vo. Original gray cloth stamped in blue (hinges loose, spine slightly slanted, slight wear to extremities); dust jacket (clipped, some chipping with short tears and creasing, spine panel slightly faded).

FIRST EDITION, third issue, printed from the first issue plates with a new title-page, of West's darkly comedic novella. By the time Harcourt, Brace, and Company released the second issue (see previous lot) demand for Miss Lonelyhearts had dwindled, and the book was remaindered by Greenberg in 1934 in the hopes of benefiting from the momentum of the 1 December 1933 film adaptation, Advice to the Lovelorn. Connolly, The Modern Movement 76 ("one of the masterpieces of modern literature"); White 3a.

[With:] WEST, Nathanael. A Cool Million the Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin. New York: Covici Friede, 1934. 8vo. Half-title. (Slight marginal toning.) Original light tan cloth stamped in green, top edge stained yellow (spine slanted, some wear to extremities, hinges loose); dust jacket (restored with some work in facsimile, some chipping and separating along folds). 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). White 4. [Also with:] A copy of the facsimile first edition, first issue of Miss Lonelyhearts printed in 1962 by the First Edition Library.
Property from the Estate of David Green Jr.