Rediscovering Ben Hecht
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"Selling the Celluloid Serpent." Ben Hecht's mostly humorous stories for the Chicago Daily News about the silent film business of the early 1920s. Collectors Edition printed on deep toned resume paper and card stock of mauve, sage and pumpkin colors. Tipped-in color images of Mack Sennett, Norma Talmadge, Chicago landmarks, a distorted business card, Moon Quan's contract with DW Griffith. Transparency page; UV Ultra leaf with embossing. One story is typed on green lined accounting paper. Spiral in silk-screened cloth-over-board portfolio with caricature by Chicago artist Erik Johan Smith, whose biography is included. Numbered artist book by Florice Whyte Kovan. Errata page at end.
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First Published
1998
Pages
95 pages
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Snickersnee
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ENG
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