Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
by Loos, Anita. (Text) Barton, Ralph. (Illustrations)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
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About This Item
New York: Boni & Liveright.. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1925. Second Printing. Hardcover. Second edition. (So stated on front panel of jacket) Published in November of 1925. (Same month as first printing. Boni & Liveright jacket. (not the Grosset & Dunlap) Fine in red quarter cloth and patterned boards in very good dust jacket. (Period book plate opposite half-title. Small sticker ghost on blank preliminary. Price of $1.75 blacked-out on jacket flap. Chips at corners & edges of jacket. 2 clear tape repairs on blank reverse. ) Not a 'first' but next best in original Boni & Liveright jacket. Basis for two film adaptations. ; 5 1/4" X 7 1/2"; 217 pages .
Synopsis
Anita Loos was born in California in 1888. She began writing movie scripts and supplied film scenarios for D.W. Griffith and Douglas Fairbanks. First published in 1925, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was a best-seller in thirteen languages and was followed by its sequel, But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes . Anita Loos was the author of the novels A Mouse is Born and No Mother to Guide Her and two volumes of autobiography, A Girl Like I and Kiss Hollywood Good-by . She died in 1981.
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- Bookseller
- Waverley Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3114226
- Title
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
- Author
- Loos, Anita. (Text) Barton, Ralph. (Illustrations)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- Second Printing
- Publisher
- Boni & Liveright.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1925
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