Limited edition book from The Franklin Mint Library, c 1981 Red leather bound book with gilt and gilt edge pages. Measures 8.5 x 6 x 1in. 2 stories by American Writer Nathanael West; Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust. Miss Lonelyhearts is a novella by Nathanael West. He began writing it early in 1930 and completed the manuscript in November 1932. Published in 1933, it is an Expressionist black comedy set in New York City during the Great Depression.The Day of the Locust is a 1939 novel by American author Nathanael West set in Hollywood, California set set during the Great Depression. The novel follows a young artist from the Yale School of Fine Arts named Tod Hackett, who has been hired by a Hollywood studio to do scene design and painting. 3 Miss Lonelyhearts, The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West, novel, library collection, collectible books, The Franklin Mint library Limited edition book, leather bound book, The Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature, The Great Depression, 3Shelf