A Guide For The Bedevilled By Ben Hecht.

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. "

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Publisher: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944 . 0

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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