A Jew in love / by Ben Hecht.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Novels.

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 341 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Manufacture:

[New York] : Manufactured in the United States by the Van Rees Press.

Place of Publication:

New York : Covici Friede Publishers, [1931]

Notes:

With half-title.

Title printed in red on title page.

"Copyright 1931 Covici Friede, Inc."

Green cloth with brown spine panel. Front cover has facsimile of Ben Hecht's signature in brown. Top edge stained red.

Originally banned in Boston and other cities for the words "God is a pain in the ass" on p. 306. This line was removed in subsequent editions.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is first edition, first issue with line on p. 123 "'You can answer ----,' said Boshere" and 34 lines on p. 306 including the line "As far as I'm concerned God is a pain in the ass, said Boshere."

OCLC:

6867815