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Art & Architecture on 1001 Afternoons in Chicago: Essays and Tall Tales of Artists and the Cityscape of the 1920s. Ben Hecht stories; Florice Whyte Kovan, research, commentary and book design. Case covered, oblong, museum bound, hardcopy book, revised and expanded after the original artist book to include ten new gallery pages for artists Stanislav Szukalski, Herman Rosse and George Grosz. Cream colored pages. Illustrated with 85 bw pictures. Index with text illustrations. Sources. Afterword. Printed Cambridge, MA.

ISBN 0-9667709-1-9

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The Ben Hecht Story & News, Compiled. Ben Hecht stories and Florice Whyte Kovan, research, text and design. Ten spiral-bound issues. Includes the March 2001 issue in which Hecht's authorship of the Marilyn Monroe memoir is revealed. Colored cardstock with narrower apple green "Centerfolio" reprints.

ISBN 0-9667709-2-7 Compiled in spiral bind

ISSN 1629-0611. Loose issues with original staple binding, colored card stock. apple green Centerfolios.

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TWO FOR ONE SPECIAL Only 200 published, this oblong paperback of Rediscovering Ben Hecht: Selling the Celluloid Serpent comprises his stories about how the silent movies were made, written in Chicago in the early 1920s for the Chicago Daily News. No longer available at Amazon, it was one of the first to be chosen for their "Look inside the book" feature. KEEP ONE AND GIVE ONE, PERHAPS TO YOUR LIBRARY!

ISBN 0966770935

NOTE to rare book sellers, Please see below the artist book 1st Edition. We wonder if some dealers may have confused the two editions.

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Ben Hecht's Chicago stories about the silent film business 19921-22. Collectors Edition printed on deep toned resume paper and card stock of mauve and pumpkin. One story is on old accounting ledger paper, Hand mounted color images of Mack Sennett, Norma Talmadge and others . Spiral in silk-screened cloth-over-board portfolio. Artist book by Florice Whyte Kovan, handmade washi paper by artist Sheila Crider See reviews by Anthony Slide and Gerne Vazzana (click picture).



Above: Hard cover silk-screened slipcase for this and V.2

Publisher includes a complimentary copy of the paperback is provided as the indexed reading copyight, Loose color pictures are tipped in.

ISBN 0-9667709-1-9 As seen at the top of this page.

Case covered, oblong, museum bound, hardcopy book, revised and expanded after the original artist book to include ten new gallery pages for artists Stanislav Szukalski, Herman Rosse and George Grosz. Cream colored pages. Illustrated with 85 bw pictures. Index with text illustrations. Sources. Afterword. Printed Cambridge, MA.

Rediscovering Ben Hecht, Vol II: Art & Architecture on 1001 Afternoons in Chicago

ISBN 0-9667709-4-3. $120.00.

Art & Architecture on 1001 Afternoons in Chicago: Volume II in the Rediscovering Ben Hecht series. 17 Ben Hecht, stories; Florice Whyte Kovan, research, commentary and book design.

Spiral in chemise within hard cover. Fabric over hard cover is silk screened with Hecht's image. 93 pages. Resume and cardstock. Tipped in color pictures. Endnotes, some illustrated.

Florice Whyte Kovan, Snickersnee Press ISBN 978-0-9667709-5-7 Colored Card in Decorative Spiral.