Miss Lonelyhearts

Introduction by Alan Ross. First UK edition. 116pp. Hardback in dust jacket. Publisher’s original red cloth boards lettered in black to spine. Foxing to edges of text block and prelims. Jacket age-toned and foxed; minor chipping to extremities. *** A very good first UK edition of this American classic (originally published in the USA in 1933), set in New York during the Depression about a newspaper agony aunt (Miss Lonelyhearts) whose own agony and despair becomes the driving force of this darkly comic novel.