THE FLORENTINE DAGGER: A Novel for Amateur Detectives
by HECHT, Ben
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Boni and Liveright, ( 1923 ). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Wallace SMITH. 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,".
"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,".
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Details
- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0008405
- Title
- THE FLORENTINE DAGGER
- Author
- HECHT, Ben
- Illustrator
- Wallace SMITH
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Boni and Liveright
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- ( 1923 )
- Keywords
- mystery, ben hecht, wallace smith, mystery fiction,
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About the Seller
Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Biblio member since 2005
Chicago, Illinois
About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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