Gentlemen Prefer Blondes & Blondes Prefer Gentlemen - 1926 Jazz Age Pair

by Loos, Anita & Strange, Nora K.

$40 · Offered by Biblio

In dust jacket

New York: Boni & Liveright & J. S. Ogilvie, 1926. Good/No Dust Jacket.. Pair of companion volumes capturing the wit and social satire of the Jazz Age: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925) by Anita Loos, illustrated by Ralph Barton, and its 1926 British parody Blondes Prefer Gentlemen by Nora K. Strange. Together they embody the transatlantic humor and gender commentary of the flapper era, contrasting American optimism with British irony. Rarely offered together. Physical Description & Condition: Loos, Anita - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925 (Ninth Printing, March 1926). Decorative patterned boards with red cloth spine and printed label. Lacking dust jacket. Corners rubbed, spine tips frayed, spine titles faded. Front hinge starting after endpapers though text block firm. Pages clean with light even toning. Illustrated throughout by Ralph Barton. Good only. Strange, Nora K. - Blondes Prefer Gentlemen: A Satire, The Ingenious Diary of an Amateur, by an Englishman. New York: J. S. Ogilvie 1926]. Illustrated by Merle Johnson. Good Bindings with opening at title page; cloth binding, rubbed with edge wear, some internal toning, and scattered foxing. Joint darkened; Binding sound with rubbed corners but a working copy. Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes became an immediate sensation upon release in 1925, running through nine printings in five months. Its "illuminating diary of a professional lady" - the unforgettable Lorelei Lee - captured the materialism an

• Publisher: Boni & Liveright & J. S. Ogilvie
• Year: 1926
• Binding: unknown

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