"Gentlemen prefer blondes" : the illuminating diary of a professional lady / by Anita Loos ; intimately illustrated by Ralph Barton.

Accession number: 
PML 186139
Author: 
Loos, Anita, 1894-1981.
Published: 
New York : Boni & Liveright, ©1925.
Description: 
216 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Credit: 
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes: 

First edition, first state, with the word "divine" in table of contents and "devine" in the body and chapter headings.
Library's copy housed in red cloth slipcase with former owners' book labels affixed to red cloth chemise.

Binding: 
Publisher's red cloth lettered in gold with pictorial dust jacket designed by Ralph Barton.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Author's inscription in ink on front flyleaf: For Elizabeth Bibesco, from her affectionate Anita Loos, October 1925.

Provenance: 
Signed to Elizabeth Bibesco; bookplate of Jean Hersholt; bookplate of Nathaniel E. Stein; Carter Burden.
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