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Garden City Pub. Co, 1945. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Charles Scriber's Son, 1944. Hardcover. Acceptable. Orange cloth boards are warped, with upper corners of boards turning upwards. Spine is cocked. NO DJ. Cloth covering is faded, more so on spine. Corners of boards are bumped, bending inward and worn. Bumped spine at bottom and top which has wearing with threads fraying. The end paper and free end papers are foxed and very browned. All pages are very yellowed and fragile with a thumb-sized rip on page 276. Deckle edges. Text block really browned. Back strip is separated from block but all leaves are still bound together and are not falling out. Book is readable, but one would need to be very careful while turning pages. The author was an Academy Award winning screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, activist and novelist. Ghost-writer on Marilyn Monroe's autobiography. Neat book by author with deep Hollywood ties.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944. Hardcover. Good. First edition 1944, no other printings noted. Binding solid, deckled edged pages lightly age toned but crisp and clean, no markings found. No dust jacket. Green boards with gold gilt lettering that is a bit rubbed, bright and shiny with light scuffs and rubs. Extremities lightly bumped with small rubs. Ships within 24-48 hours via media mail.

Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., 1945. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The lightly tanned pages have a very few small scattered soil spots. The cover has a few light soil spots and some light edge wear. The spine has some light end wear. The dust jacket is very tattered. 276 pages. .

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x1. 1944 Scribner with Scribner seal but no "A" tight and unmarked in lightly chipped price intact jacket, now in mylar. Please email for photos.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944 .. First edition. pp.6/pp.276 . Original gree cloth covered boards, with dulled and rubbed gilt titles to front board and spine. Small bookseller's label to verso of the front board: "Perkin & Co. Calle Cangallo 542 Buenos Aires". Also bookplate to verso of the front board: "Ex Libris Suzette Telenga, Enrique Ellinger". Previous owner's signature to front endpaper. clean text throughout. A clean book with a very interesting provenance! ** "Ben Hecht; (February 28, 1893 � April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist. A journalist in his youth, he went on to write 35 books and many screenplays and plays in America. He received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some seventy films..." - See Wikipedia *** ",,,But the book, as most complete expression of Hecht's worldview during the 1940s, remains important: it reflected contemporaneous and future… Read More

New York: ScribnerÕs, 1944, 1944. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

Charles Scribner's Sons. Good with no dust jacket. 1944. First Edition; Early Printing. Hardcover. 1127468162 . ; Orange cloth cover has wear and soiling. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and in very good condition. Early printing published in the same year as the first printing as indicated by "1944" on title page. ; 8.0 X 5.8 X 1.1 inches; 276 pages .

New York: Scribner’s, 1944. Later printing; some staining; good in dust jacket. An exceptional association, inscribed by the author “To Nunnally Johnson. ‘co-chairman’ Ben Hecht.” Hecht and Johnson accounted for much of the best writing in Hollywood, co-writing one episode in “O. Henry’s Full House,” and Johnson was married at the home of Hecht’s great friend and collaborator Charles MacArthur (and his wife, Helen Hayes). Hecht passionately attacked anti-Semitism, and his vocal, steadfast support for Israel’s independence from Great Britain came at great personal cost, leading to his boycotting by that nation.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Early reprint. A small stain on the front board, else fine in very good dustwrapper with chipping at the crown and a corresponding small stain on the front panel. This copy Inscribed to mystery writer Rex Stout: "To Rex Stout, here's what I was busy about - Ben Hecht." Hecht's book-long attack on anti-Semitism. Hecht and Stout were both active in progressive writers' groups.

Charles Scribner's Sons. As New. 1944. Hardcover. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW, THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE, CLEAN, UNMARKED, AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - - 276 pages -- with a bonus offer-- .