Guide Bedevilled by Hecht Ben (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Verschmutzung; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveränderung; Starke Gebrauchsspuren.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Edge rubbed dust jacket in mylar cover. Tight binding, solid tan boards with sharp corners, horizontal sun-fade to lower 1/2" of front board, gilt lettering to front and to spine strip, previous owner's name and date to front end paper, clean, unmarked pages throughout. From the library of musicologist Victor Ruby whose name appears on the front end paper. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear on the boards. Text is clear of markings and notations. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Scribner's, NY, 1944, 8vo., cloth, 276pp., foxed spine, a couple of spots to cover, G $.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Early Printing. Hardcover, no jacket, quite good with slight toning, light shelf wear.

Condition: Very Good. Hardback with full dust cover. Sold by the U.K. Charity Kisharon Langdon. Offering Opportunities and Support for People within the Autism and Learning Disability Community.

Hardbound. Condition: Good. Octavo, brown cloth with black lettering, 276 pp.

Hardcover in Dustjacket. Condition: Very Good +. JUDAICA History -" This is a brilliant analysis of the anti-semite--historical, European, and American" (fron the jacket).Skimming through the history of the Jews, Mr. Hecht finds that the Jew is not the cause of anti-Semitism but its victim; he explains that it has never mattered whether the Jew tried to make himself into a likeness pleasing to the non-Jew; it mattered not whether the Jew was rich or poor, quiet-mannered or noisy, radical or conservative: anti-Semitism always seemed to flourish.Writing in 1943, Hecht cries out for the three million Jews already killed by "ordinary Germans." Called "the most influential writer in the history of American movies," Hecht was shunned both by Hollywood and by most of American Jewry for his stand on saving Europe's Jews.First Edition . Quite SCARCE (Bookplate on fpd and small prev ownership name.) 276 p. ; 21 cm. #270726  Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.…

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A non-fiction book analyzing anti-Semitism. Dust jacket unclipped, original price present "$2.50". Jacket chipping at edges and corners. Corners of boards gently bumped. 8vo, 276 pp. Very Good Plus.

First edition. pp.6/pp.276 . Original gree cloth covered boards, with dulled and rubbed gilt titles to front board and spine. Small bookseller's label to verso of the front board: "Perkin & Co. Calle Cangallo 542 Buenos Aires". Also bookplate to verso of the front board: "Ex Libris Suzette Telenga, Enrique Ellinger". Previous owner's signature to front endpaper. clean text throughout. A clean book with a very interesting provenance! ** "Ben Hecht; (February 28, 1893 April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist. A journalist in his youth, he went on to write 35 books and many screenplays and plays in America. He received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some seventy films." - See Wikipedia *** ",But the book, as most complete expression of Hecht's worldview during the 1940s, remains important: it reflected contemporaneous and future responses to Nazism, and it drew the contours of American postwar debates about Israel, and international politics and war more generally." - See: 'The Notorious Ben Hecht By Julien Gorbach' . *** Enrique Ellinger, German-born, South American mining tycoon (1904 - 1969) . Enrique Adolfo Ellinger was born on 10 November 1904. He married Camilla Thorpe (1926-1974), daughter of John Henry Thorpe and Ursula Norton-Griffiths, in 1955. He died in 1969 at Surrey, England. He had a son and a daughter. He lived at Buenos Aires, Argentina **** " Susan Yorke is the pseudonym of Suzette Telenga (1915-1997) who was born in Germany and settled in Australia in 1965. Susan Yorke (Also known as) : Suzette Ellinger; Suzette Shuttleworth; and Suzette Telenga Reese-Parkin. ***** The Sydney Morning Herald 7 May 1997 - Obituary: Susan Yorke 1915-1997. She lived in many countries wrote nine novels and about 500 short stories, and was married at least three times. Her first marriage was to a prominient United States diplomat who died before he could follow his father's career footsteps as US Ambassador to brazil. She subsequently married a career diplomat named Ellinger who was posted to buenos Aires. After the south American years, she lived for a time - apparently with husband number three, a Yorkshire planter named Edward Shuttleworth - In Malaya. She seldom saw another white woman and was forced to live in a heavily fortified bungalow on a rubber plantation. ". …

Hardcover. Condition: As New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Early reprint. A small stain on the front board, else fine in very good dustwrapper with chipping at the crown and a corresponding small stain on the front panel. This copy Inscribed to mystery writer Rex Stout: "To Rex Stout, here's what I was busy about Ben Hecht." Hecht's book-long attack on anti-Semitism. Hecht and Stout were both active in progressive writers' groups.…

Later printing; some staining; good in dust jacket. An exceptional association, inscribed by the author 'To Nunnally Johnson. Ôco-chairman' Ben Hecht.' Hecht and Johnson accounted for much of the best scripting in Hollywood, co-writing one episode in 'O. Henry's Full House,' and Johnson was married at the home of Hecht's great friend and collaborator Charles MacArthur, and his wife Helen Hayes. Hecht passionately attacked anti-Semitism, and his vocal, steadfast support for Israel's independence from Great Britain came at great personal cost, leading to his boycott by that nation. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.…