Miss Lonelyhearts

First Printing. Limited Facsimile Edition of the author's novel. Rare and scarce. One of the greatest novelists of the 20th century. Fine in original cloth, with fine pictorial dust jacket, in very near fine slipcase. With publisher's information card on this title laid in, card mildly discolored on one side. Duodecimo. 14 x 20.5 cm. A must-have title for West collectors. A fine collectible copy. This is one of few copies of this Limited Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note that most of the 1933 original First Edition copies available lack the scarce dust jacket are in relatively poor condition, yet command thousands of dollars. This is a lovely and accessible alternative. A rare and great collector's copy thus. Published in a small and limited print run (whose number is not specified). An austerely elegant production by Collectors Reprints: Regular-sized volume format. Khaki cloth boards with titles embossed on spine, as issued. The entire production reproduces the 1933 Liveright Publishers First Edition down to the smallest detail: Its actual size, typeface, orange top stain, and pictorial dust jacket. The only addition is the handsome cloth board slipcase with reproductions pasted on both sides.

Nathanael West's masterpiece of nihilism. Considering that the novel almost did not get published and immediately thereafter got caught up in the most disastrous publishing history ever to befall a masterpiece, this edition is a long-overdue restoration for Modern First collectors. Nathan Weinstein was the ultimate paradox of a genius: He despised his Jewish roots so profoundly that he changed/'Westernized' his name. The epithet, 'self-hating Jew', applied to Nathanael West long before it became an ideological term. At the same time, Weinstein-become-West mined those very same roots to create his great art.

Writing in eloquent prose, Harold Bloom, one of West's most insightful critics and admirers stated: "What is admirable about 'Miss Lonelyhearts' is, of course, its nihilism. It is literature as uncompromising, powerful expression. 'Excels 'The Sun Also Rises', 'The Great Gatsby', and even 'Sanctuary' as the perfected instance of a negative vision in modern American fiction. West's spirit lives again in 'The Crying of Lot 49' and some sequences in 'Gravity's Rainbow', but the sublimity of 'Miss Lonelyhearts' proves to be beyond Pynchon's reach."