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Bennett Cerf
Bennett Cerf was born in 1898 in Manhattan and graduated from Columbia University with a degree in journalism. In 1925 he acquired the Modern Library with Donald Klopfer, providing the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. A major figure of American publishing for more than four decades, Bennett Cerf died in 1971.
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24 Favorite One Act Plays
Edited by Bennett Cerf and Van H. Cartmell
Broadway Books | Trade Paperback | April 1963
$16.99/18.99(Canada) | 978-0-385-06617-4 (0-385-06617-1)
Two dozen classic dramas by some of the finest and most famous playwrights of the last hundred years--Anton Chekhov, Noel Coward, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Miller, and A.A. Milne. Read more
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At Random
Written by Bennett Cerf, Introduction by Christopher Cerf
Random House Trade Paperbacks | Trade Paperback | March 2002
$15.95/22.95(Canada) | 978-0-375-75976-5 (0-375-75976-X)
“I’ve got the name for our publishing operation. We just said we were going to publish a few books on the side at random. Let’s call it Random House.” So recounts Bennett Cerf in this wonderfully amusing memoir of the making of a great publishing house. An incomparable raconteur, possessed of... Read more
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At Random
Written by Bennett Cerf
Random House | Hardcover | August 1977
$28.00/33.00(Canada) | 978-0-394-47877-7 (0-394-47877-0)
“I’ve got the name for our publishing operation. We just said we were going to publish a few books on the side at random. Let’s call it Random House.” So recounts Bennett Cerf in this wonderfully amusing memoir of the making of a great publishing house. An incomparable raconteur, possessed of... Read more
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Dear Donald, Dear Bennett
Written by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, Introduction by Robert D. Loomis
Random House | Hardcover | March 2002
$25.00/38.00(Canada) | 978-0-375-50768-7 (0-375-50768-X)
Donald Klopfer and Bennett Cerf had been partners in Random House for seventeen years, but Donald decided that he had to become a part of an even greater endeavor—the defeat of Nazi Germany. Not long after Pearl Harbor, Donald, who was then forty years old, took a leave from Random House... Read more
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The Best Short Stories of O. Henry
Written by O. Henry, Edited by Bennett Cerf and Van H. Cartmell
Modern Library | Hardcover | March 1994
$24.00/32.00(Canada) | 978-0-679-60122-7 (0-679-60122-8)
The more than 600 stories written by O. Henry provided an embarrassment of riches for the compilers of this volume. The final selection of the thirty-eight stories in this collection offers for the reader's delight those tales honored almost unanimously by anthologists and those that represent, in variety and balance, the best... Read more
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