A Child of the Century Tapa dura - 1985

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Brand: Dutton Adult, 1985-05-30. hardcover. Used: Good.

New York: Dutton Adult, 1985. First Thus. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/About Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Thus w/ new Introduction by Sidney Zion, First Printing; orig. c.r. 1954. Hard cover 8vo. Fine and unmarked book in About Fine clipped DJ, now in clear protective cover. 654pp inc. Index; illustrated in photos.

Dutton Adult, 1985. Very good. Not available in the UK. Dust jacket: Very good.. Ben Hecht was a prolific writer of screenplays, novels and short stories. Born in the 1890s to Belarussian-Jewish immigrant parents in New York City, he started a successful career as a journalist working for several Chicago newspapers. He is credited, alone or in collaboration, for the screenplays of some seventy films and worked with the biggest Hollywood names of the interwar years: Josef von Sternberg, Howard Hawks, David O. Selznick, Ernst Lubitsch and Alfred Hitchcock. He was also very active in the American Civil Rights movement and became a committed Zionist. The proceeds of a play written by Hecht were used to buy a ship, named the SS Hecht, to carry 900 Holocaust survivors to Palestine. A Child of the Century, his autobiography, was published in 1954 to critical acclaim with praise for the ‘vibrant and candid’ writing style although critics suspected that some of the anecdotes were ‘juiced’. As Norman… Leer más

Brand: Dutton Adult, 1985-05-30. hardcover. Used:Good.

Dutton Adult, 1985. Hardcover. New. STORED NEW PRISTINE CONDITION SANITIZED THEN WRAPPED