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A thousand and one afternoons in Chicago
Title
A thousand and one afternoons in Chicago / Ben Hecht ; design and illustrations by Herman Rosse.
Publication
Chicago : Covici-McGee, 1922.
Manufacture
Chicago : Printing Service Company
Physical Description
288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Notes
Title on 2 facing pages.
Collection of 64 sketches of Chicago written by the author in 1921-1922 in a daily column for the Chicago daily news.
Published November, 1922.
Variant and related titles
1001 afternoons in Chicago
Other formats
Online version: Hecht, Ben, 1893-1964. Thousand and one afternoons in Chicago. Chicago, Covici-McGee, [1922]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 05, 2017
Contents
Fanny
The auctioneer's wife
Fog patterns
Don Quixote and his last windmill
The man hunt
Mr. Winkelberg
A self-made man
To Bert Williams
Michigan Avenue
Coeur de lion and the soup and fish
The sybarite
Dapper Pete and the sucker play
Waterfront fancies
The snob
The way home
The pig
The little fop
Mottka
Fa'n ta mig
Fantastic lollypops
Notes for a tragedy
Coral, amber and jade
Meditation in E minor
Ten-cent wedding rings
Where the blues sound
Vagabondia
Nirvana
The indestructible masterpiece
Satraps at play
Mrs. Sardotopolis' evening off
The great traveler
Thumps up and down
Ornaments
The watch fixer
Schopenhauer's son
World conquerors
The man from yesterday
Thumbnail Lotharios
The soul of Sing Lee
Mrs. Rodjezke's last job
Queen Bess' feast
The dagger Venus
Letters
The mother
Clocks and owl cars
Confessions
An Iowa humoresque
The exile
On a day like this
Jazz band impressions
Night diary
The lake
Sergt. Kuzick's Waterloo
Dead warrior
The tattooer
The thing in the dark
An old audience speaks
Mishkin's minyon
Sociable gamblers
Ripples
Pitzela's son
Pandora's box
Ill-humoresque
The man with a question
Grass figures.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Fiction.
Also listed under
Covici-McGee Co., publisher.
Printing Service Company (Chicago, Ill.), printer.
United States Illinois Chicago.
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