A CHILD OF THE CENTURY de Hecht, Ben - 1954

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/near Very Good dust jacket. Octavo. [10], 654, [1] pp. First edition, fourth printing; signed and inscribed by Hecht. In publisher's cloth-backed boards with dust jacket. Bottom edges of the boards are rubbed as well as the top corner of the back board; front board shows a little rippling to the paper covering it; largely a clean, solid copy in rubbed and somewhat worn dust jacket with price intact on the bottom of the front flap. This is the much regarded autobiography of among the most important American playwrights in the first half of the 20th century, here signed and inscribed by Hecht on the front free endpaper to D. H. Lawrence scholar, Keith Cushman.