A CHILD OF THE CENTURY
by Hecht, Ben
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good/good
- Seller
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Brooklyn, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954. [12],654,[1] pp. Publisher's cloth-backed paper over boards in original dust jacket. Signed by the author on front free endpaper. Boards bumped and lightly scuffed at head and tail, jacket worn at extremities, with minor chipping at head of spine panel, lightly scratched in rear panel. Very good in a good dust jacket.
The autobiography of journalist, novelist, dramatist, and propagandist Ben Hecht, whom Pauline Kael called "the greatest American screenwriter," with accounts of Chicago, Hollywood, pre-war Germany, and the Zionist insurgency against the U.K. in Mandatory Palestine.
The autobiography of journalist, novelist, dramatist, and propagandist Ben Hecht, whom Pauline Kael called "the greatest American screenwriter," with accounts of Chicago, Hollywood, pre-war Germany, and the Zionist insurgency against the U.K. in Mandatory Palestine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 911
- Title
- A CHILD OF THE CENTURY
- Author
- Hecht, Ben
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- American literature, biography, memoir, film, screenwriting, journalism, propaganda, Jewish Americans, Palestine, Israel
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Glossary
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.