A kiss on the hand may make you feel very nice, but a diamond and safire bracelet lasts forever
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Boni & Liveright, 1925.
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, in the original pictorial dustwrapper. Author's presentation copy, inscribed by Loos to the front free endpaper to David Tomlinson, "I am happy to have this copy of my book with David Tomlinson with all best wishes Anita Loos". Thirty-one illustrations by Ralph Barton. A near fine copy in a very good dustwrapper with a chip to the top edge of the rear panel and wear to the corners, with a short closed tear neatly repaired and some dampstaining around the spine.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was an instant success, selling out the full run of the first edition on the day of its release in November 1925, and becoming the second best-selling book of 1926 in the USA according to Publisher's Weekly, outselling F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby", also published in 1925. Praised by authors including James Joyce, William Faulkner and Edith Wharton, the latter dubbing it "the great American novel", it went on to run through 85 editions, be translated into 14 languages, and be adapted into the 1953 Marilyn Monroe film of the same name.
Stock ID: 44363
£1,750.00
