A Child of the Century [SIGNED & INSCRIBED]
de Hecht, Ben
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- vg- to near fine
- Librería
-
Santa Monica, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1954. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. vg- to near fine. Octavo. 564, [1]pp. Black dust jacket with yellow and red lettering on the front, photo-portrait on the back. Sunned yellow lettering on the spine. Page uncut. Inscribed, signed and dated by Hecht on the front free endpaper, in pen. A first printing of the acclaimed autobiography of the award-winning and prolific playwright, journalist and and Hollywood screenwriter Ben Hecht. His most notable works include the screenplays for films such as Underworld (1927), Scarface (1932), Gunga Din (1939), Wuthering Heights (1939), Spellbound (1945), and Notorious (1946). The wrote the acclaimed play The Front Page, most famously adapted as the classic film His Girl Friday (1940). Original dust jacket with some minor rubbing and creasing to extremities, with light sunning to the spine. Interior flaps of the jacket unclipped with light foxing and water stains. Binding with light rubbing and bumping to extremities. Covers with minor scratches and smudges. Close tear to the head of the spine. Interior front cover with the ink stamp of a previous owner. Interior otherwise clean. Binding tight. Dj and binding in very good-, interior in near fine condition overall.
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- Librería
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 53210
- Título
- A Child of the Century [SIGNED & INSCRIBED]
- Autor
- Hecht, Ben
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - vg- to near fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition, first printing
- Editorial
- Simon & Schuster
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1954
- Palabras clave
- Golden age of Hollywood, studio system, filmmaking, screenwriting, screenwriters, movies, cinema, playwrights, American theater, non-fiction, screwball comedy, dialogue, Jewish writers,
Términos de venta
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Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
