The Dream Life of Balso Snell
- 1931
- THE DREAM LIFE OF BALSO SNELL / By / N / A / T / H / A / N / A / E / L / W / E / S / T
/CONTACT EDITIONS / Paris New York / (The whole inclosed within vertical and diagonal rules
in blue and black)
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Collation: [1]-[98] pp., as follows: [1]-[2] blank; [3] bastard
title: The Dream Life / of / Balso Snell /; [4] blank; [5] quotation: "After all, my dear fellow, / life, Anaxagoras has said, / is a journey." / Bergotte
/; [6] blank; [7] title-page as above; [8] notices: Copyright 1931 by / MOSS and KAMIN,
Inc. / Printed in the United States of States of America. /; [9]
notice: This edition of "The Dream Life of Balso / Snell" is limited to 500 numbered copies
of / which 300 are for sale in America and 200 for / Great Britain and the Continent. / This
is copy No. /; [10] blank; [11] dedication: To A. S. /; [12] blank; 13-95 text: [96]-[98]
blank.
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Issued stitched in heavy paper cover folded over paper, with transparent paper wrapper.
Front cover similar to title-page. Printed in black on spine: THE / D / R / E / A / M / L /
I / F / E / OF / B / A / L / S / O / S / N / E / L / L / By / N / A / T / H / A / N / A / E
/ L / W / E / S / T /. All edges untrimmed. The leaves measure 9½ by 6¼
inches.
Published August 1931 in an edition of 500 copies. The original price was $3.00 and
(boards) $10.00.
First edition.
Copies were sold by Moss & Kamin, Inc., then of 1423 Sixth Avenue, New York City. I
have not seen a copy in boards. The book has for some time been a collector's item, copies
in good condition bringing $25.00, although they do not turn up very often in
catalogues. An advertisement for the book in Contact, I (May 1932),
4, reads: 'A strange anti-literary novel best characterized by Kurt Schwitter's definition
"Tout ceque l'artiste crache, c'est l'art!"' And in Contact, I
(October 1932), 3: 'If you desire two parallel lines to meet at once, or even in the near
future, it is important to make all arrangements beforehand, preferably by wireless.' The
book has never been reprinted.
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Excerpts
'The Dear Public,' Americana, I (August 1933), 29. (Published in
New York City by the American Group, Inc., this issue lists Nathaniel [sic.] West with George Grosz and Gilbert Seldes as Associates
on the staff; the editor was Alexander King. West's first name is also misspelled in the
by-line.)
'Excerpt,' Americana, I (September 1933), 25. (Nathanael West's
name is correctly spelled in this issue, and Seldes no longer is on the staff.)
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Review
G[aroffolo], N. G. [The Dream Life of Balso Snell], Contempo (Chapel Hill, N. C.), I (21 August 1931), 3. (This is the only
review of the novel I have been able to find.)
- Miss Lonelyhearts
- 1933
- (Decorated rule) / (wavy rule) / MISS / LONELYHEARTS / (short wavy rule) / by Nathanael West / (device of monk at writing table) / LIVERIGHT
· INC · PUBLISHERS / NEW YORK /
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Collation: [1]-[216] pp., as follows: [1] bastard title: MISS
LONELYHEARTS /; [2] blank; [3] title-page as above; [4] notices of copyright, printing, and
presswork; [5] dedication: TO MAX /; [6] blank; [7]-[8] contents; [9] section half-title
[these also occur on pp. 21, 35, 45, 57, 73, 95, 113, 131, 143, 159, 173, 185, 199 and 207,
followed by a blank page]; [10] blank; 11-213 text; [214]-[216] blank.
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Issued in tan cloth. Stamped on spine in silver on black: (rule) / MISS / LONELYHEARTS /
(rule) / NATHANAEL / WEST in (rule) (The above lines inclosed within a silver rule on black)
/ LIVERIGHT (in black) /. Top edge yellow; bottom edge trimmed; fore edge untrimmed. The
leaves measure 7⅜ by 5 inches.
Published April 1933 in an edition of 2,200 (?) copies. The original price was
$2.00.
First edition.
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.
Publication was finally taken over by Harcourt, Brace and Company, using the plates of the
Liveright edition, except for the bottom of the title-page. Replacing the Liveright device
was that of Harcourt, Brace, followed by: HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY / NEW YORK /. The
verso of the title-page read: COPYRIGHT, 1933, BY NATHANAEL WEST / MANUFACTURED IN THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA /. Issued in red cloth. Stamped in black on spine: (wavy rule) /
Miss / Lonely- / hearts / (wavy rule) / NATHANAEL / WEST / (wavy
rule) / Harcourt, Brace / and Company /. Reissued 1934 by Greenberg:
Publisher, with this name on the title-page.
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Reprints
Miss / Lonelyhearts / A NOVEL BY / NATHANAEL / WEST / WITH AN /
INTRODUCTION / BY ROBERT M. / COATES / THE NEW CLASSICS /
214 pp. New York: New Directions, 24 August 1946 (5,000 copies). 6¾ by 4½
inches. Text printed from the original plates. Issued in red cloth. Stamped in gold on
spine, reading downwards: MISS LONELYHEARTS /. New Classics No. 15, $1.50.
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MISS / LONELYHEARTS / by / NATHANAEL WEST / with an introduction by /
Alan Ross / THE GREY WALLS PRESS / Crown Passage, Pall Mall /
London /
116 pp. 1949. 7¼ by 4¾ inches. Issued in light blue cloth. Stamped in silver
on spine, reading downwards: MISS LONELYHEARTS (small heart) NATHANAEL WEST /; reading across: GREY / WALLS /
PRESS /. First British edition. 7s 6d.
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Miss Lonelyhearts / A NOVEL BY NATHANAEL WEST / With an
introduction by Robert M. Coates / THE NEW CLASSICS / xvi, 142 pp. New York: New Directions,
January 1950 (5,000 copies).
7 by 4⅜ inches. Printed from new plates. Issued in yellow cloth. Printed in black
on spine, reading downwards: MISS LONELYHEARTS /. $1.50.
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Miss Lonelyhearts / NATHANAEL WEST / Complete and Unabridged / AVON
PUBLICATIONS, INC. / 575 Madison Avenue New York 22, N. Y. /
96 pp. 19 April 1955 (190,000 copies). 6⅜ by 4⅛ inches. Issued in paperback
with multi-colored illustration on front cover. Spine and back cover in yellow, gray, red,
and black. Avon No. 634. 25&c.nt;.
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Translations
'Miss Lonelyhearts, aidez-moi, aidez-moi'; Miss Lonelyhearts en expédition,' L'Arbalète: revue de littérature (Lyon: Marc Barbezat), 9
autome 1944, pp. 193-206. (Translation, by Marcelle Sibon, of two chapters from Miss Lonelyhearts, 'Miss Lonelyhearts, Help Me, Help Me' and 'Miss
Lonelyhearts on a Field Trip.')
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NATHANAEL WEST / MADEMOISELLE / CŒUR-BRISÉ / "MISS LONELYHEARTS" / ROMAN / Traduit par Marcelle Sibon / PRÉFACE DE PHILIPPE SOUPAULT
/ (publisher's device) / ÉDITIONS DU SAGITTAIRE / 56 RUE-RODIER — PARIS /
156 pp. 5 April 1946. 7¼ by 4⅝ inches. Issued in paper-back. Printed on
front cover: NATHANAEL WEST / LA DEMOISELLE DES / CŒURS BRISÉS / "MISS LONELYHEARTS" / ROMAN (in red) / Traduit par
MARCELLE SIBON / Préface de Philippe Soupault / (drawing of woman's wig,
envelopes, and pen) / D'UNE TERRE A L'AUTRE (in red) / (eight heavy
rules in red) / EDITIONS DU SAGITTAIRE / (two heavy rules in red) /. Printed on spine:
NATHANAEL / WEST / La / Demoiselle / des / CŒURES / BRISÉS / SAGITTAIRE /. 125
fr.
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Original Appearances
'Miss Lonelyhearts and the Lamb,' Contact, I (February 1932),
80-85. (This chapter and the others below are early versions, with variations. Contact, sub-titled An American Quarterly Review,
was published by Moss and Kamin, Publishers of The Dream Life of Balso
Snell, and edited by William Carlos Williams with Robert McAlmon and Nathanael West as
associate editors.)
'Two Chapters from Miss Lonelyhearts' ('Miss Lonelyhearts and the Dead Pan' and 'Miss
Lonelyhearts and the Clean Old Man'), Contact, I (May 1932), 13-21,
22-27.
'Miss Lonelyhearts in the Dismal Swamp,' Contempo, II (5 July
1932), 1, 2.
'Miss Lonelyhearts on a Field Trip,' Contact, I (October 1932),
50-57.
'Some Notes on Miss Lonelyhearts,' Contempo, III (15 May 1933),
1,2. (Comments by West after the book's publication.)
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Movie
Advice to the Lovelorn. Adapted from the novel, Miss Lonelyhearts. Screenplay by Leonard Praskins. 20th Century-United Artists.
Released 1933. (West did not work on the script. No copy of the script is available. The
movie was reviewed in Harrison's Reports, XV [26 August 1933], which
I have not seen.)
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Reviews
- Britten, Florence Haxton. 'Grotesquely Beautiful Novel,' New York
Herald Tribune Books, IX (30 April 1933), 6.
- Brown, Bob. 'Go West, Young Writer!' Contempo, III (25 July
1933), 4-5. (This was one of several reviews in this issue under the general heading 'Miss
Lonelyhearts Is Reviewed.' There was also a sketch by S. J. Perelman and ads for the
book.)
- Caldwell, Erskine. [Comments on Miss Lonelyhearts in an ad],
Contempo, III (15 May 1933), 7. (This same ad appeared in the issue
25 July 1933 issue, but this time Harcourt, Brace has been substituted for Liveright as
publisher. Four other writers are quoted. Contempo, III [15 March
1933], 2, mentions Miss Lonelyhearts having been accepted for
publication by Liveright.)
- Coates, Robert M. [Comments on Miss Lonelyhearts in an ad], Contempo, III (15 May 1933), 7.
- -----. 'Messiah of the Lonely Hearts,' New Yorker, IX (15 April
1933), 59.
- D[avies], H[ugh] S[ykes]. 'American Periodicals,' The
Criterion, XI (July 1932), 772-[775]. (Reviews the issue of Contact, February 1932, containing West's story 'of the clumsy sacrificial slaughter
of a lamb by drunken students.')
- Flores, Angel, 'Miss Lonelyhearts in the Haunted Castle,' Contempo, III (25 July 1933), 1.
- Hammett, Dashiell. [Comments on Miss Lonelyhearts in an ad],
Contempo, III (15 May 1933), 7.
- Herbst, Josephine. [Comments on Miss Lonelyhearts in an ad],
Contempo, III (15 May 1933), 7.
- -----. 'Miss Lonelyhearts: An Allegory,' Contempo, III (25 July
1933), 4.
- Matthews, T. S. 'Novels-A Fortnight's Grist,' New Republic,
LXXIV (26 April 1933), 314-315.
- Mott, Frank Luther. [Miss Lonelyhearts], Journalism Quarterly, X (June 1933), 120.
- Swann, Michael. 'New Novels,' New Statesman and Nation, XXXVIII
(6 August 1949], 153-154. (Review of the Grey Walls Press edition.]
- Troy, William. 'Four Newer Novelists,' Nation, CXXXVI (14 June
1933), 672-673.
- Williams, William Carlos. 'Sordid? Good God!' Contempo, III (25
July 1933), 5, 8.
- Wilson, T. C. 'American Humor,' Saturday Review of Literature,
IX (13 May 1933), 589.
- Unsigned. [Miss Lonelyhearts], Boston
Transcript, 26 July 1933, p. 2.
- -----. 'Books and Reviews,' New Outlook, CLXII (July 1933), 55,
58.
- -----. '"Miss Lonelyhearts" and Some Other Recent Works of Fiction,' New York Times Book Review, [XXXVII] (23 April 1933), 6.
- A Cool Million
- 1934
- A COOL / MILLION / The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin / BY /
NATHANAEL WEST / (ornament) / COVICI · FRIEDE · Publishers / NEW YORK /
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Collation: [1]-[236] pp., as follows: [1] bastard title: A COOL
MILLION /; [2] blank; [3] title-page as above; [4] notices of copyright, reservation of
rights, printing, press-work, and designer; [5] dedication: TO / S. J.
PERELMAN /; [6] blank; [7] half title: A COOL MILLION / ; [8] quotation: "John D. Rockefeller would give a cool million / to have a stomach like yours."
—OLD SAYING /; 9-229 text; [230]-[236] blank.
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Issued in light tan cloth. Stamped in green on front cover: A COOL / MILLION / (ornament)
/. Stamped in green on spine: WEST / A COOL MILLION (reading downwards) / Covici · Friede /. Top edge yellow; fore and bottom edges trimmed. The leaves
measure 7⅜ by 5 inches.
Published 19 June 1934 in an edition of 3,000 (?) copies. The original price was
$2.00.
First edition.
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Reprint
A COOL / MILLION / The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin / BY /
NATHANAEL WEST / (ornament) / (publisher's device of lion and spear) / NEVILLE SPEARMAN /
London / (The whole enclosed within a rule within a decorated
rule)
140 pp. 1954. 7¼ by 4¾ inches. Issued in red cloth. Stamped in white on
spine: A / COOL / MILLION / (decorated rule) / Nathanael / West / (publisher's device of
lion and spear) / NEVILLE / SPEARMAN /. First British edition. 9s.
6d.
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Reviews
- Britten, Florence Haxton. 'Youth Against Age in Recent Leading Fiction,' New York Herald Tribune Books, X (1 July 1934), 8-9.
- Brickell, Herschel. [A Cool Million], New
York Post, 23 June 1934, p. 7. Chamberlain, John. 'Books of the Times,' New York Times, 19 June 1934, p. 17. Gannett, Lewis. [A Cool Million], New York Herald Tribune, 21 June 1934, p.
19. Marsh, Fred T. 'A Cool Million and Other Recent Works of Fiction,' New York Times Book Review, [XXXIX] (1 July 1934), 6.
- Matthews, T. S. 'A Gallery of Novels,' New Republic, LXXIX (18
July 1934], 271. S[tevens], G[eorge]. 'The New Books,' Saturday Review of
Literature, X (30 June 1934], 784.
- Unsigned. [A Cool Million], Boston
Transcript, 14 July 1934, p. 2.
- -----. 'Shorter Notices,' Nation, CXXXIX (25 July 1934),
112.
- -----. 'In the Jungle,' Review of Reviews, XC (August 1934),
6-7.
- The Day of the Locust
- 1939
- Nathanael West / THE DAY / OF THE / LOCUST / Random House, New York / (Half-inch
right-angle rules at each corner)
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Collation: [i]-[viii] + [1]-[240] pp., as follows: [i]-[ii]
blank; [iii] publisher's device of house; [iv] note: Other Books by / Nathanael West: / Miss
Lonelyhearts / A Cool Million /; [v] title-page as above; [vi] notices: Copyright, 1939, by /
Random House, Inc. / First Printing / Manufactured in / the U.S.A. by / H. Wolff, New York /;
[vii] dedication: For Laura /; [viii] blank; [1] half title: The Day of the Locust/; [2]
blank; 3-238 text; [239]-[240] blank.
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Issued in red cloth. Orange paper label on spine, lettered : West / THE DAY / OF THE /
LOCUST / Random / House / (3/16-inch right-angle rules at each corner). Top edge black; fore
and bottom edges trimmed. The leaves measure 8 by 5 inches.
Published 16 May 1939 in an edition of 3,000 copies. The original price was
$2.00.
First edition.
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Reprints
NATHANAEL WEST / The Day of the Locust / WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
RICHARD B. GEHMAN / THE NEW CLASSICS /
xxiv, 168 pp. New York: New Directions, 28 August and December 1950 (5,000 copies each
printing). 7 by 4¾ inches. Issued in light green cloth. Stamped in black on spine,
reading downwards: THE DAY OF THE LOCUST /. New Classics No. 29. $1.50.
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THE DAY / OF THE LOCUST / BY NATHANAEL WEST / THE GREY WALLS PRESS / CROWN PASSAGE, PALL
MALL / LONDON S. W. 1 /
208 pp. 1951. 7¼ by 4¾ inches. Issued in dark blue cloth. Stamped in gold on
spine, reading downwards: Nathanael West THE DAY OF THE LOCUST /;
reading across: GREY / WALLS / PRESS /. First British edition. 9s
6d.
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THE DAY OF THE / LOCUST / WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY / RICHARD B. GEHMAN / by NATHANAEL WEST
/ (publisher's device of a bantam) BANTAM BOOKS · New York /
(2¾-inch vertical decorated rule above publisher's device)
xvi, 144 pp. March 1953 (250,000 copies). 6⅜ by 4¼ inches. Issued in
paper-back with multi-colored illustration on front cover. Spine and back cover in yellow,
blue, red, and black. Bantam No. 1093. 25&c.nt;
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Reviews
- Aaron, Daniel. 'Writing for Apocalypse,' Hudson Review, III
(Winter 1951), 634-636. (Review of the New Directions edition.)
- Britten, Florence Haxton. 'New Novels from Far and Near,' New York
Herald Tribune Books, XV (21 May 1939), 7.
- Fadiman, Clifton. 'Books: Assorted Fiction,' New Yorker, XV (20
May 1939), 78-80.
- Friedman, Robert. [The Day of the Locust], Daily Worker, 23 November 1950. (Review of the New Directions edition. I have not
seen this review nor one quoted on p. i of the Bantam Books edition by Kelsey Guilfoil in
the Chicago Tribune.)
- Markfield, Wallace. 'From the Underbelly,' The New Leader,
XXXIII (27 November 1950, 25. (Review of the New Directions edition.)
- Milburn, George.'The Hollywood Nobody Knows,' Saturday Review of
Literature, XX (20 May 1939), 14-15.
- Rosenfeld, Isaac. 'Faulkner and Contemporaries,' Partisan
Review, XVIII (January-February 1951), 106-114. (Review of the New Directions
edition.)
- Salomon, Louis B. 'California Grotesque,' Nation, CXLIX (15
July 1939), 78-79.
- Schulberg, Budd. 'Feeble Bodies, Disordered Minds,' New York Times
Book Review, [LV] (10 October 1950), 4 (portrait). (Review of the New Directions
edition.)
- Van Gelder, Robert. 'A Tragic Chorus,' New York Times Book
Review, XLIV (21 May 1939), 6-7.
- Williams, William Carlos. [Day of the Locust], Tomorrow, X (November 1950), 58-59. (Review of the New Directions
edition.)
- Wilson, Edmund. 'Hollywood Dance of Death,' New Republic,
LXXXXIX (26 July 1939), 339-340. (Reprinted in part in Boys in the Back
Room.)
- Unsigned. 'Truly Monstrous,' Time, XXXIII (19 June 1939),
84.
- -----. 'Neglected Novelist,' Newsweek, XXXVI (4 September
1950), 77-78. (Review of the New Directions edition.)
- The Complete Works
- 1957
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The Complete Works of / NATH / ANAEL / WEST / Farrar, Straus and
Cudahy : New York / (Title covers two pages, with author's name on three uneven lines)
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Collation: [i]-[ii] + [i]-xxii + [1]-[424] pp., as follows:
[i]-[ii] blank; [i] blank; [ii]-[iii] title-page as above; [iv] notices: © 1957 by
Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, Inc. / Copyright 1931 by Moss and Kamin / Copyright 1933, 1934
by Nathanael West / Copyright 1939 by the estate of Nathanael West / Library of Congress
catalog card number 57-6259 / Manufactured in the United States of America / by H. Wolff, New
York / First printing, 1957 / Design: MARSHALL LEE /; [iv]-[v] contents; [vi] blank;
[vii]-xxii 'The Dead Center: An Introduction to Nathanael West', by Alan Ross; [1] half
title: 1931 / The Dream Life of Balso Snell /;
[2] dedication and quotation: To A. S. / "After all, my dear fellow, /
life, Anaxagoras has said, / is a journey." / BERGOTTE /; [3]-62 text; [63] half title:
1933 / Miss Lonelyhearts /; [64] dedication:
To MAX /; [65]-140 text; [141] half title: 1934 / A Cool Million / or, The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin /; [142] dedication and quotation:
To S. J. PERELMAN / "John D. Rockefeller would give a cool million to have
a stomach / like yours." — OLD SAYING /; [143]-255 text; [256] blank; [257] half
title: 1939 / The Day of the Locust /; [258]
dedication: For LAURA /; [259]-421 text; [422]-[424] blank.
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Issued in black paper-covered boards with a yellow cloth backstrip. Stamped in blind on
front cover: NATH / ANAEL / WEST / (Uneven lines, as on title-page). Stamped in white on
spine: The / Complete Works / of / Nathanael / West / Farrar, Straus
& Cudahy / (Initial letter of author's last name in black). Top edge black; fore and
bottom edges trimmed. The leaves measure 7¼ by 5 inches.
Published 10 May 1957. The original price was $5.00.
First edition.
An errata slip is inserted, loose, in the book, calling attention to errors in the
introduction. The year of his birth is given, p. x, as 1906; the errata slip gives it as
1903; his age is given, p. x, as thirty-four when he died; the errata slip gives it as
thirty-seven. The introduction mentions that he was associate editor of Americana (with George Grosz); the errata slip says that he was associate editor of
Contact (with William Carlos Williams). Both are correct: he was on
Contact's masthead February, May and October 1932, and listed in Americana from August through November 1933.
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Reviews
- Bittner, William. 'Catching Up with Nathanael West,' Nation,
CLXXXIV (4 May 1957), 394-396.
- Cowley, Malcolm. 'It's the Telling That Counts,' New York Times Book
Review, LXII (12 May 1957), 4-5 (portrait).
- Podhoretz, Norman. 'A Particular Kind of Joking,' New Yorker,
XXXIII (18 May 1957), 144-153.
- Russell, Ralph. 'He Might Have Been a Major Novelist,' Reporter, XVI (30 May 1957), 45-46.
- Schoenwald, Richard L. 'No Second Act,' Commonweal, LXVI (10
May 1957), 162-163.
- Smith, Roger H. 'SR's Spotlight on Fiction: "The Complete Works of Nathanael West,"'
Saturday Review, XL (11 May 1957), 13-14 (portrait from the
dustwrapper of the book). (On the first page of this review is a biographical sketch, 'The
Happy Mortician,' by Archibald Van Voorhees; and a full-page portrait of West is on the
cover of the Saturday Review.)
- Unsigned. 'Rubbing Off the Sheen,' Newsweek, XLIX (13 May
1957), 126-127 (portrait).
- White, William. 'Belated Fame,' Detroit Free Press, 26 May
1957, p. C-5.
- Plays by Nathanael West
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Good Hunting: A Satire in 3 Acts (with
Joseph Schrank). Produced by Jerome Meyer and Leonard Field at the Hudson Theatre, New York
City on 21 November 1938; ran two performances. (See Burns Mantle, The Best
Plays of 1938-39 [New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1939], pp. 427-428, for a brief
synopsis and cast of the play.)
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Even Stephen (with S. J. Perelman). Never produced; unpublished.
(The MS of this play and of the short stories listed below are in the possession of S. J.
Perelman, executor of Nathanael West's estate.)
- Movies by Nathanael West
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Advice to the Lovelorn. See Miss
Lonelyhearts.
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Ticket to Paradise (in collaboration). Republic, 1936.
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Follow Your Heart (in collaboration). Republic, 1936.
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The President's Mystery (in collaboration). Republic,
1936.
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Rhythm in the Clouds (adaptation). Republic, 1937.
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Born to be Wild (original). Republic, 1938. (These five
screenplays are listed under Nathaniel [sic.] West in The 1940-41 Motion Picture Almanac; I have been unable to get any further
information.)
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Five Came Back (in collaboration with Dalton Trumbo and Jerry
Cady). RKO Radio, 1938; released 1939. (No copy of the script is available.)
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I Stole a Million (original story by Lester Cole; screenplay by
Nathanael West). Universal, released 21 July 1939. (Copy of the script available in Central
Files Department, Universal-International Pictures, Universal City, California.)
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Men Against the Sky. RKO Radio, released 1940. (West alone
received credit for this picture. No copy of the script is available.)
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Spirit of Culver (original story by George Green, Tom Buckingham,
and Clarence Marks; screenplay by Nathanael West and Whitney Bolton). Universal, 1939. (A
copy of this script is in the New York Public Library; [164] pp. typescript of the shooting
script.)
- Periodical Pieces by Nathanael West[3]
- 'Euripides—A Playwright,' Casements (Providence, R. I.: The
Brown Union), I (July 1923), unpaged.[4]
- 'Death,' Casements, II (May 1924), 15. (A 12-line poem, signed N.
von Wallenstein-Weinstein.)
- 'Some Notes on Violence,' Contact, I (October 1932),
132-133.
- 'Christmass [sic.] Poem,' Contempo, III
(21 February 1933), 4. (A 19-line free verse poem.)
- 'Business Deal,' Americana, I (October 1933), 14-15. (An original
sketch on Hollywood, concerning a writer and a movie producer. For more information about Contact, Contempo and Americana see annotation
above to Miss Lonelyhearts. The November 1933 issue of Americana; Vol. II, No. 1, was the final issue; it contains no articles
signed by West.)
- 'Soft Soap for the Barber,' New Republic, LXXXI (November 1934),
23.
- Unpublished Short Stories by Nathanael West
- 'L'Affair Beano,' called 'The Fake' earlier. (Quoted by Richard B. Gehman in his
Introduction to The Day of the Locust [New York: New Directions,
1950], pp. xiv-xv.)
- 'Mr. Potts of Pottstown.'
- 'The Sun, the Lady, and the Gas Station.'
- 'Tibetan Night.'
- 'Western Union Boy.'