Contributors Ben Hecht (6 results)

Condition: Good. 1st edition. Cloth, VG. 266pp, ink name to fep, otherwise a nice copy. A collection of 17 short stories by the leading exponents of the genre. 300 grams.

Third or fourth printing (third printing per publisher's copyright page sequence but "fourth printing" stated at bottom of dj's front flap). viii, 562 pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 14.25cm. Dust jacket well rubbed; white rear panel soiled; some chipping and tears at edges; front flap retains publisher's printed price at top right. Black cloth; orange title blocks with black lettering to spine and front board; light bumping to spine ends and board corners. Past owner's pencil signature on front pastedown; pages 111-122 are creased/bumped at their top fore-edge corners; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Features a collection of 32 mystery short stories including: "Ruffian's Wife" by Dashiell Hammett; "Accident" by Agatha Christie; "Murder by Mail" by Howard Spring; " Mr. Bowley's Sunday Evening" by H.C. Bailey, "The Fifteen Murders" by Ben Hecht; "Blood Sacrifice" by Dorothy L. Sayers; "Mr. Markham, Antique Dealer" by John Dickson Carr; "The Diamond Links" by Grant Allen; "A Personal Magnet" by O. Henry; "The Cablegram" by T.S. Stribling; "The Blind Spot" by Leslie Charteris; "Ellery Queen, Swindler" by Ellery Queen; "The Willow Walk" by Sinclair Lewis; "Town Wanted" by Fredric Brown; et al.

"Expurgated Edition " (as stated upon copyright page) - presumed first edition, first printing. [12], 132, [1] pages. Hardcover: H 19.5cm x L 12.5cm. Lacks dust jacket. Orange cloth lightly soiled; gilt stamping to spine and front board. Gilt top edge; deckle fore-edge and bottom edge. Foxing to pale blue endpapers; inelegant personal bookplate of Mencken collector H. Walter Starkloff on front pastedown; Christmas 1928 four-line pencil inscription "from Joe" on front flyleaf; glued down to half-title page is Starkloff's personal memo sheet with typewritten commentary regarding the book and his ink signature; pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Else a very good copy. A collection of invective directed at renowned Baltimore Sun columnist H.L. Mencken by fellow American newspapermen, commentators, essayists, etc. among which includes Arnold Bennett, William Braithwaite, Louis Bromfield, Hamlin Garland, Ben Hecht, D.H. Lawrence, Christopher Morley, et al.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Ex-owner's name & city on flyleaf; a worn, good (only) copy, lacking the dustjacket. Includes Fitzgerald's "Two for a Cent".

First Edition. BEST FILM PLAYS 1945, Crown, 1946, first edition, near fine in like dust-wrapper. Film plays contained within are The Lost Weekend, Spellbound, Double Indemnity, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, None But the Lonely Heart, The Southerner, Story of G.I. Joe, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Over Twenty-One, and A Medal for Benny. Contributors are Ben Hecht; Charles Brackett; Billy Wilder; Raymond Chandler; James M. Cain; Clifford Odets; Dalton Trumbo, et.al. Illustrated with photos.

First Edition. Slim octavo (25.5cm); original taupe wrappers printed in black, with printed title label mounted to front cover; 48pp. Trivial wear to extremities, else a fresh, Fine copy. Contents include poetry and short works by Ben Hecht, Mitchell Dawson, Alexander S. Kaun, Burt Harris, Ellen Key, Witter Bynner, and others.