Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Loos, Anita - 1925: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady[ is a comic novel written by Anita Loos, first published in 1925. It is one of the several famous novels published that year to chronicle the so-called Jazz Age, including Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Van Vechten's Firecrackers. Loos was inspired to write the book after watching a sexy blonde turn intellectual H. L. Mencken into a lovestruck schoolboy. Mencken, a close friend, actually enjoyed the work and saw to it that it was published. Originally published as a magazine series in Harper's Bazaar, it was published as a book by Boni & Liveright in 1925 and became a runaway bestseller, becoming the second best selling title of 1926 and earning the praise of no less than Edith Wharton who dubbed it "The Great American Novel."A sequel, But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, was published two years later. Clean, no tears or writing- "Gentlemen prefer blondes - fate keeps on happening - London is really nothing - Paris is divine - the center of Europe - brains are really everything. ), a satirical view of a "dumb blonde" showgirl from Arkansas out to get a rich husband. It was an overnight bestseller and was translated into fourteen languages, even serialized into Chinese."- Illustrations in B&W by Barton- Fiction-humour-movie-tie-in-illustrated. 1st Edition-early printing. Cloth Spine- Boards. VG++-Near FINE/No Jacket.