[McMURTRY, Larry (1936-2021), his copy]. WEST, Nathanael (1903-1940). Miss Lonelyhearts. New York: Liveright Inc, [1933]. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with the Liveright imprint on title-page, ?Liveright? stamped at foot of spine, and the notice of presswork on copyright. While the first edition was being issued, Liveright Inc. went bankrupt, and the printer refused to release 1,400 copies of the book after 800 had been shipped and bookshops were unable to source copies. The publication was finally taken over by Harcourt, Brace and Company, using the plates of the Liveright edition. Copies of the first issue are rare (only 800 in circulation), especially in the original dust jacket. In Freudenberger and Stein?s Bibliostyle: How We Live at Home with Books (2019), McMurtry talks of not burdening his heirs with his 30,000-book library at his home in Archer City but there were a select few that he would never sell: ?Nathanael West?s four novels would be ones I wouldn?t part with: The Dream Life of Balso Snell; Miss Lonelyhearts; A Cool Million: The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin; and The Day of the Locust. Other than those volumes, my library is, you might say, ?a vibrant intellectual ecosystem??. Connolly 76; White 3.