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19639562Garden City: Doubleday 1963. 1st edition. VG/VG some soiling/closed tear to rear panel lower edge. 8vo. <br/><br/> Doubleday unknown books
1963173641Garden City NY: Doubleday and Company 1963. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. An interesting book from important journalist and author who worked at the Chicago Daily Journal and Chicago Daily News. The basis for a Norman Jewison directed movie that starred Beau Bridges. A tight near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some minor wear. Doubleday and Company unknown books
192232511NY: Boni and Liveright 1922. First Edition. 8vo pp. 346. Author's second book. Covers slightly soiled o/w a VG tight copy. A novel. Boni and Liveright unknown books
1933884911933. FE. HECHT Ben. THE GREAT MAGOO. A Play in 3 Acts and 8 Scenes by Ben Hecht and Gene Fowler. Illustrated by Herman Rosse. New York: Covici -Friede 1933. First edition. Binding is black with green lettering. A fine copy in a fine pictorial dust jacket. unknown books
1924130355New York: Boni and Liveright 1924. First edition. Hardcover. 383 pages. An about fair copy in yellow cloth boards that are somewhat soiled and with some other wear staining and soiling as well. No dust jacket. Boni and Liveright unknown books
192390910Girard Kansas: Haldeman-Julius 1923. Paperback. Very Good. 64p. Softcover in original wrapper. 13 cm. Pages lightly browned. Little Blue Book No. 1166. <br/><br/> Haldeman-Julius paperback books
1964134888Garden City NY: Doubleday & Co. Inc 1964. First edition. Softcover. Tall galley style proofs. An about very good copy in wrappers with some edge wear a number of tears and publisher information sheet affixed to the front panel and a tape shadow to the rear panel. Scarce in this format. Doubleday & Co., Inc unknown books
19432281640Alfred A. Knopf 1943. First Edition. Small Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Jacket edges rubbed. Ink name on front paste-down endpaper. 1943 Small Hard Cover. 51 pp. This novelette is a beautiful and tender story of a lonely girl of a soldier she met one night in the rain of their love and of what happened to them in the days that followed. Above all it is a story of a miracle that could only have happened because of the greatness of their love and the depth of their faith. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
UHECMIR00WOGood. Hecht Ben. Miracle in the Rain. NP: NP ND. First Edition in dust jacket. Book condition: Good. shelf wear and rubbing to edges. Yellowing to endsheets. Name inscribed to ffep. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Shelf wear and rubbing to jacket with chipping. Yellowing to edges. unknown books
1943WRCLIT48478New York: Knopf 1943. Boards. First edition. Some darkening to endsheets at gutters but a very good copy in lightly soiled and edgeworn dust jacket with closed edge tear. Knopf hardcover books
1961RHECPER01ECJulian Messner Inc. 1961. Very Good. Hecht Ben. Perfidy. New York: Julian Messner Inc. 1961. 1st edition. 281pp. 8vo. Book condition: Very good. The edges of the covers are lightly bumped. The front endsheet is darkened. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. The edges are mildly bumped. Price clipped. Julian Messner, Inc. unknown books
19592335NY: Julian Messner. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1959. Hardcover. First edition. Very good in a very good lightly soiled and rubbed a short closed tear at the base of the rear panel minor edge wear dust jacket. . Julian Messner hardcover books
194522579New York: Avon Book Company. Very Good. 1945. First Edition. Softcover. moderate external wear some creasing to rear cover typical age-toning of pages one-time owner's address label on title page. Avon Modern Short Story Monthly no. 26 Series line drawings 29 short pieces from the Hecht volume originally published in 1941 by The Viking Press. . Avon Book Company paperback books
19231309749New York: Boni and Liveright 1923. Hardcover. Octavo; G-/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine tan with black print; Boards in tan cloth with black print worn corners tattering to spine caps stains to front lower corner cocked spine; Text block has slight stains to endpapers stain to lower right corner throughout hinge torn at rear endpapers intermittent spine breaks; 256 pages frontispiece illustrated. Stock Image. 1309749. FP New Rockville Stock. Boni and Liveright hardcover books
192322858New York: Boni and Liveright. Good. c.1923. First Edition. Hardcover. no dust jacket reading/reference copy only; soiling to covers and edges of text block dampstain at upper page corners affecting about the first 25 pages stains/smudges on several other pages. B&W frontispiece 4 plates Mystery novel the protagonist of which is "Prince Julien de Medici -- of Broadway." Basis for the 1935 film of the same name directed by Robert Florey with which Hecht himself does not appear to have been involved. NOTE that a prefatory note about the Wallace Smith illustrations refers to "the five illustrations contained in the following pages" but in fact one of those is the frontispiece preceding that note and therefore only four illustrations are actually to be found in "the following pages." . Boni and Liveright hardcover books
192377257New York: Boni and Liveright Publishers 1923. Octavo pp. 1-8 9-12 13-14 17-256 257-258: blank note: text complete despite gap in pagination; last leaf is a blank five inserted plates with illustrations by Wallace Smith original pictorial oatmeal buckram front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. ". a fine novel by a master writer."- Pronzini and Muller 1001 Midnights pp. 353-54. Filmed in 1935. Hubin 1994 p. 389. Slight spine lean a problem common to this book hint of tanning to spine panel a nearly fine copy. #77257 Boni and Liveright Publishers unknown books
1924160178Chicago: Pascal Covici Publisher 1924. Octavo pp. 1-12 1-211 212: blank note: first leaf is a blank preceding half title leaf twelve full-page illustrations by Anthony Angarola original decorated black cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold top edge stained gold over red other edges untrimmed pictorial endpapers. First edition. Limited to 2000 numbered copies of which 1900 were offered for sale by subscription only. The sequel to FANTAZIUS MALLARE: A MYSTERIOUS OATH 1922 "set in a phantasmagoric private universe in which fragments of Mallare's shattered psyche appear as characters awaiting the arrival of the god Synthemus whose advent proves to be not quite what they had anticipated. Both novellas are deeply felt exercises in sarcastic fantasy which contrast very markedly with Hecht's carefully commercial and saccharine romance MIRACLE IN THE RAIN 1943." - Barron ed Fantasy and Horror 1999 5-133. Barron ed Fantasy Literature 3-170. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 109. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II pp. 535-38. Bleiler 1948 p. 146. Reginald 07024. Tasteful private owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down. A fine copy in nearly fine pictorial dust jacket with faded spine panel and light wear at upper spine end. #160178 Pascal Covici Publisher unknown books
192475422Chicago: Pascal Covici Publisher 1924. Octavo pp. 1-12 1-211 212: blank note: first leaf is a blank preceding half title leaf twelve full-page illustrations by Anthony Angarola original decorated black cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold top edge stained gold over red other edges untrimmed pictorial endpapers. First edition. Limited to 2000 numbered copies of which 1900 were offered for sale by subscription only. The sequel to FANTAZIUS MALLARE: A MYSTERIOUS OATH 1922 "set in a phantasmagoric private universe in which fragments of Mallare's shattered psyche appear as characters awaiting the arrival of the god Synthemus whose advent proves to be not quite what they had anticipated. Both novellas are deeply felt exercises in sarcastic fantasy which contrast very markedly with Hecht's carefully commercial and saccharine romance MIRACLE IN THE RAIN 1943." - Barron ed Fantasy and Horror 1999 5-133. Barron ed Fantasy Literature 3-170. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 109. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II pp. 535-38. Bleiler 1948 p. 146. Reginald 07024. A fine copy in fine pictorial jacket with 16 mm closed tear at lower spine end and small internal mend. A sharp copy uncommon in this condition. #75422 Pascal Covici Publisher unknown books
192475423Chicago: Pascal Covici Publisher 1924. Octavo pp. 1-12 1-211 212: blank note: first leaf is a blank preceding half title leaf twelve full-page illustrations by Anthony Angarola original decorated black cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold top edge stained gold over red other edges untrimmed pictorial endpapers. First edition. Limited to 2000 numbered copies of which 1900 were offered for sale by subscription only. The sequel to FANTAZIUS MALLARE: A MYSTERIOUS OATH 1922 "set in a phantasmagoric private universe in which fragments of Mallare's shattered psyche appear as characters awaiting the arrival of the god Synthemus whose advent proves to be not quite what they had anticipated. Both novellas are deeply felt exercises in sarcastic fantasy which contrast very markedly with Hecht's carefully commercial and saccharine romance MIRACLE IN THE RAIN 1943." - Barron ed Fantasy and Horror 1999 5-133. Barron ed Fantasy Literature 3-170. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 109. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II pp. 535-38. Bleiler 1948 p. 146. Reginald 07024. A fine copy in fine pictorial dust jacket with faded gold spine lettering. A sharp copy uncommon in this condition. #75423 Pascal Covici Publisher unknown books
1959001157New York: Julian Messner Inc. 1959. Softcover. Galley proof; oblong single sheets 6 1/2 x 12 tied with a string; text in a single column recto only; light age-toning to wraps; corners a bit creased; a few small nicks to bottom edge of first two pages only; 'The Sensualists' written in pencil to right edge of pages; back wrap with a thin dark line from what appears to be a removed piece of tape; overall very good or better. One of Hecht's later works published just a few years before his death. New York: Julian Messner, Inc. paperback books
195923922NY: Julian Messner 1959. 1st edition. Creme-colored cloth binding. Black dust jacket. VG cocked/VG some wear. 256 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> Julian Messner hardcover books
90911Girard Kansas: Haldeman-Julius n.d. Paperback. Very Good. 64p. Softcover in original wrapper. 13 cm. Lightly browned. Little Blue Book No. 1167. <br/><br/> Haldeman-Julius paperback books
1937WRCLIT58708New York: Covici-Friede 1937. Cloth. Ink name on front endsheet else near fine in good lightly chipped dust jacket with new price stamp on creased front flap. First edition of this play set in the context of a native uprising Ecuador produced by the Theatre Guild as its first play of the 1937-8 season staged by Philip Moeller with scene design by Aline Bernstein. Covici-Friede hardcover books
2008169600Spokane WA: Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture 2008. Hardcover. VG-/VG-. Red cloth boards with silver stamped lettering. Black and color-illustrated dust jacket with yellow red and white lettering. 144 pp. Mainly color illustrations. Inscribed and signed on ffep by Jorda Schnitzer. Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture hardcover books
1972135200Philadelphia PA: Lippincott 1972. hardcover dust jacket. Biblio Novel. 8vo. hardcover dust jacket. 192 pages. First edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Lippincott unknown books
