An edition of Rediscovering Ben Hecht: Selling the celluloid serpent (1998)

Rediscovering Ben Hecht

Selling the Celluloid Serpent

1st Edition, Artist Book, Spiral in Hardcover Portfolio

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An edition of Rediscovering Ben Hecht: Selling the celluloid serpent (1998)

Rediscovering Ben Hecht

Selling the Celluloid Serpent

1st Edition, Artist Book, Spiral in Hardcover Portfolio

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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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Snickersnee Press
Language
English
Pages
95

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Subjects

Chicago Daily News, Fiction, Motion picture industry, motion picture directors, motion picture publicity

People

Ben Hecht, Charlie Chaplin, Lloyd Lewis, Max Sennett, Moon Quan, Norman Selby, Olga Petrova, Wallace Reid

Places

Chicago (Illinois), Hollywood, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Times

1921-1922
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Cover of: Rediscovering Ben Hecht
Rediscovering Ben Hecht: selling the celluloid serpent
1999, Snickersnee
Paperback, oblong, hand-set in English
Cover of: Rediscovering Ben Hecht
Rediscovering Ben Hecht: Selling the Celluloid Serpent
July 1, 1998, Snickersnee Press
Spiral in Silk-screened Hardcover Portfolio in English - 1st Edition, Artist Book, Spiral in Hardcover Portfolio
Cover of: Selling the celluloid serpent.
Selling the celluloid serpent.
1998, Snickersnee
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Table of Contents

Ben Hecht Stories in Rediscovering Ben Hecht: Selling the Celluloid Serpent
The Movie Double" about cliffhanger heroines and stuntwomen
Peshka and the Great Urge" about movie madness in a Jewish neighborhood)
"The Knockout" about boxer Kid McCoy/Norman Selby
"Moon Quan" (Kwan) about the Chinese cultural consultant to silent films
"Another Arabian Night" about Wallace Reid
"The New Market", about casting types and their dollar value
'Mack Sennett's Soul" - interview - where can such a famous man hide?
"A Plot for a Story" about stream of consiousness in film
"The Ancient Reluctant Conscript" about veterans of war movies
"Tears, Tears, Tears" about Norma Talmadge and Mabel Normand
"Reality versus Sham" about a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest
"The Love Interest" about Harrison Ford 1920s rough guy with women movies
"Petrovivacity" about Olga Petrova, silent film diva and modernist
"A Perfect Exposure" about a woman in a display window
"The Picador" roman a clef re Rudolph Valentino

Edition Notes

Index to this artist book is in the paperback with same pagination, complimentary when ordered directly from Snickersnee Press. Shipped in sepentine confetti.

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Washington, DC
Series
Rediscovering Ben Hecht
Other Titles
Rediscovering Ben Hecht, Vol 1
Copyright Date
1998

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Format
Spiral in Silk-screened Hardcover Portfolio
Number of pages
95
Dimensions
9 x 11.5 x .75 inches
Weight
1.7 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL11743930M
ISBN 10
0966770900
ISBN 13
9780966770902
OCLC/WorldCat
39610749
Goodreads
4231197

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December 4, 2010 Edited by Open Library Bot Added subjects from MARC records.
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October 30, 2010 Edited by Florice Whyte Kovan Corrected edition (I am publisher)
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