Ben Hecht

A Book of Miracles

originally published:
New York : Viking Press
1939

We offered this copy of the first edition, inscribed by Hecht to noted bookseller Carl Kroch, in our Catalog 103.

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bio notes:
born: 2/28/1894
died: 4/18/1964
born as: Ben Hecht
nationality: USA

American journalist, novelist, playwright, and film writer. His play The Front Page (1928), written with Charles MacArthur, influenced the public's idea of the newspaper world and the newspaperman's idea of himself.- Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature

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In our experience the books of Ben Hecht, with a few exceptions tend to be undervalued. He was successful as a novelist, journalist, and screenwriter (in this capacity he was a particular favorite of Alfred Hitchcock), and his fingerprints are all over the second third of the 20th Century. Most of his books are well within the range of even the modestly funded collector, although his play The Front Page (1928, co-authored with Charles MacArthur) is avidly sought by collectors of both drama, and as a film source book. His earliest books are surprisingly difficult in jacket, but don't (yet) command the premiums of the early books of those of his contemporaries of equivalent stature.
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