A Book Of Miracles

New York: The Viking Press, 1939. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); gold cloth, with titling and author's initials stamped in blue on spine and front cover; navy blue topstain; dustjacket; [x],465,[5]pp. Trace of staining to endpapers from binders glue, else a fresh, Fine copy, with the topstain notably unfaded. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.75), with light wear to… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Press, 1939. First edition. INSCRIBED BY HECHT on front endpaper, "To SHOLEM ASCH/ of the line of the Prophets/ my deep admiration/ Ben Hecht." A nice sentiment to Asch, the Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist. Both he and Hecht were prolific writers, more celebrated in their own lifetimes than now--but still a very good ASSOCIATION COPY.… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Press, 1939. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Slight toning on endpapers, else fine lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Starr Cornelius.

New York: Viking. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1939. Advance Reading Copy/Proof. Softcover. Tear to front upper spine edge. Slight bump to upper outer corners of second half of book. Slight wear to corners. Rear cover has an ink stamp and slight creasing. Slight creasing to spine. ; Publisher's proof copy of the first edition. Plain… Read more about this item

The Viking Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1939. First Edition; First Printing. Hard Cover. SIGNED and inscribed, "To Groucho with love, Ben Hecht". With Groucho Marx's autograph inked on his bookplate affixed to inside cover. ; Tight and clean. Solid binding. Slight age-toning to pages with some browning from binder's glue to pastedowns and… Read more about this item

London: Nicholson and Watson, 1940. First English Edition; uncorrected proof; bound in plain blue wrappers lettered in hand on the upper cover; cloth spine and floral endpapers, reminiscent of an earlier time, and evidence of wartime shortages. Very good.

New York: The Viking Press, 1939. This is a Very Good copy of the First Edition. Gold cloth binding(!) with titling in blue on the spine and "BH" on the front cover. Clean text; 465 pages; dark topstain.. No bumps; endpapers showing some tanning. . A solid copy, lacking the dustjacket. In an archival plastic protector.. First Edition. Hard Cover.… Read more about this item

Nicholson and Watson, London, 1940,. /Dust Jacket Included. 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 320pp, pages browned, especially the edges, text clean and sound, no inscriptions; red cloth, patchily discoloured, Good conditio, in scruffy trn browned remnants of dustwrapper .