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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady
by Loos, Anita
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. Eleventh Printing of April, 1926. Very good+ in 1/4 dark green cloth and paper covered boards with faded gilt text on the spine and a printed paper label on the front board. A 12mo of 7 1/4 by 5 inches with light rubbing and wear to the head and heel of the spine and the paper covering is rubbed through at the tips of the boards and much of the fore edge of the front board. Without its issued dust jacket. 217 pages of text. Illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous vignettes and plates by Ralph Barton.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB31592
- Title
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady
- Author
- Loos, Anita
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Eleventh Printing of April, 1926
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Boni & Liveright
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1925
Terms of Sale
Town's End Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Town's End Books
Biblio member since 2009
Deep River, Connecticut
About Town's End Books
We purchase and sell only collectible first editions in a number of fields all focused on Americana. We are primarily mail order sellers; however, we are open by appointment and welcome visits from customers.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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