Hecht Ben Smith Wallace (44 results)

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paperback. Condition: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind. Smith, Wallace (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good plus trade paperback. Illustrated wraps. First HBJ edition. 174pp. Illustrated. Moderate general wear. No names or markings. Banned book. Wallace Smith (illustrator).

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Smith, Wallace (illustrator).

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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Thus. First edition thus 1978, first printing, printing line starts with "A". Original edition 1922 limited to 2000 confiscated by government. Published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Softcover without DJ as issued. Condition fine, square tight and clean book, spine not creased, corners not bumped but with slight creases, slight edgewear, no markings of any kind, no names, no underlinings, no highlights, no bent pages. Not a reminder. 8vo, 174 pages, illustrated with drawings by Wallace Smith. Wallace Smith (illustrator).…

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. None. First Edition. Single date on copyright page. One of the Chicago literary Hall of Fame inductee's best-known detective novel with a striking frontispiece and other plates by Wallace Smith, who also designed the cover. Legend has it that he wrote this novel to win a bet wit Charles MacArthur that he could win a prize for a detective novel, which he did. 8vo, light brown cloth with black titles and dagger design, 256 pages. A fine, clean and unmarked copy. Extremely scarce.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 12mo, 256 pages, beige canvas-like cloth, small bookplate on endpaper. "As Hecht tells the story, he made a $2,500 bet with Charles MacArthur's millionaire brother, Alfred, that in two days he could write a book that would be critically praised and sell more than twenty thousand copies. The dictation took thirty-six hours, he claims, and he won the wager - Fetherling, FIVE LIVES OF BEN HECHT, p.58." With 5 drawings by the phenomenal WALLACE SMITH, with his black-and-white illustrations "to illustrate the spirit of the text rather than its letter. The result is this series of Renaissance pictures whose dark opulence curiously interprets the moods of this story's hero,". Wallace SMITH (illustrator).…

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS BY WALLACE SMITH. SMALL DISCRETE BOOKSELLER'S BOOK PLATE" HARRY W. SCHWARTZ BOOKS MILWAUKEE, WIS." ON REAR INNER COVER. BURLAP COVERED BOARDS. PAPER BEGINNING TO TONE WITH AGE AND BEGINNING TO SPLIT AT THE FRONT COVER SEAM. THE INTERIOR PAGES ARE CLEAN AND TIGHT. WALLACE SMITH'S WHITE ON BLACK LINE ILLUSTRATIONS ARE SIMILAR BUT LESS EROTIC THAN THOSE OF HIS INFAMOUS "FANTAZIUS MALLARE" ILLUSTRATIONS. HECHT CLAIMED TO HAVE WRITTEN THIS BOOK ON A BET IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS. COVERS PROTECTED IN A MYLAR WRAPPER. WALLACE SMITH (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. FIRST EDITION THUS. CONTAINS BEN HECHT'S "1001 AFTERNOONS" TALE "MISHKIN'S KISHKA CLUB" AND ALSO HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL COLUMN "WHAT A NEWSPAPER REPORT REMEMBERS" CHAPTER SEVEN. ON THE FRONT COVER IS BEN HECHT'S BOOKPLATE DRAWING OF A "SWAMI PLAYING A HORN PIPE WITH A SEMI-NAKED WOMAN 'HALO" THAT WAS DRAWN BY NOTED ARTIST WALLACE SMITH WHO HAD ILLUSTRATED THE NOTORIOUS BEN HECHT BOOK "FANTAZIUS MALLARE." ALSO CONTAINS SEVERAL LITERARY COLUMNS BY MAXWELL BODENHEIM. ONE COLUMN IS THE BEGINNING OF HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY. WALLACE SMITH (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Smith, Wallace (illustrator).

Condition: Very Good. None. 256 pages. B/W illustrations by Wallace Smith. Record # 801909. Wallace Smith (illustrator).

Hard Cover - Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 256 pp, fifteen titled chapters with topical contents added. 5 b&w llustrations by Wallace Smith. Dennen's Bookshop (Detroit) stamp affixed inside ffep, at bottom hinge corner. Ben Hecht was a very funny man, & a very fine writer. Binding tight, with slight forward lean, pages clean and unmarked, with paper age-toned. 5.3" x 7.6" rough light brown cloth with dark brown letters & design to fr cover and spine. In glassine protector. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Smith, Wallace (illustrator). Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Limited Edition. Good limited edition inscribed by Ben Hecht to Horace Liveright, the important American publisher and co-founder of Boni and Liveright, on a blank page adjacent to the front endpaper. One of 2025 numbered copies, this copy number 721. Pages clean and unmarked. Abrasions to top layers of cloth on both front and back boards. Wear to spine ends and corners. Fading to spine. No jacket. Ben Hecht was a former journalist who became at one time the highest paid screenwriter in Hollywood, most famous for writing the play The Front Page, filmed multiple times, most notably as His Girl Friday with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. Wallace Smith (illustrator). Inscribed by Author(s).…

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