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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

by LOOS, Anita

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About This Item

Brentano's Ltd, London, 1926. 1st edition. Hardcover. Red silk effect boards with buff quarter-spine, lettered in black to front and spine, some light fading to front edges. Intimately illustrated by Ralph Barton. A little light flecking to some leaf margins and the front block, else clean, tight pages throughout. Overall, a very good, crisp copy of the author's most famous novel.

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
Shellhouse Books GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
PSHB7373
Title
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Author
LOOS, Anita
Book Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Brentano's Ltd, London, 1926
Keywords
Fiction

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