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Book - Fictional Story, Brentano’s Ltd et al, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1926
... He moved to New York around 1909 and gained national attention in 1912 with his first sale to the humour magazine Puck, going on to become one of the highest-paid illustrators of the era, commanding as much as $1,500 per drawing for outlets like Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar, Collier's, Judge and Photo play. ...He moved to New York around 1909 and gained national attention in 1912 with his first sale to the humour magazine Puck, going on to become one of the highest-paid illustrators of the era, commanding as much as $1,500 per drawing for outlets like Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar, Collier's, Judge and Photo play. ...
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is the Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady that follows Lorelei Lee, a self-absorbed, gold-digging blonde flapper from Arkansas, as she journals her romantic and financial conquests travelling from New York to Europe (Paris, London) with her more sensible friend Dorothy, collecting rich admirers, diamonds and comic misadventures along the way. It was published the same year as F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Carl Van Vechten's Firecrackers, and is considered one of several notable 1925 American novels focused on the carefree hedonism of the Jazz Age. The London/Brentano's edition you're describing (1926) came out shortly after the original 1925 American edition, illustrated throughout in Art Deco style by caricaturist Ralph Barton.
Hard cover book. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Author: Anita Loos
Publisher: Brentanos Ltd
Illustrator: Ralph Barton
Date: 1926
Further Information: Plain blue Cloth hardcover with lettering and patterning to spine in black. The spine has a Library label with an inscription.
fictionGentlemen Prefer Blondes is the Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady that follows Lorelei Lee, a self-absorbed, gold-digging blonde flapper from Arkansas, as she journals her romantic and financial conquests travelling from New York to Europe (Paris, London) with her more sensible friend Dorothy, collecting rich admirers, diamonds and comic misadventures along the way. It was published the same year as F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Carl Van Vechten's Firecrackers, and is considered one of several notable 1925 American novels focused on the carefree hedonism of the Jazz Age. The London/Brentano's edition you're describing (1926) came out shortly after the original 1925 American edition, illustrated throughout in Art Deco style by caricaturist Ralph Barton.shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, warrnambool, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, shipwrecked-artefact, book, pattison collection, warrnambool library, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, ralph eric pattison, corangamite regional library service, warrnambool city librarian, mechanics’ institute library, victorian library board, warrnambool books and records, warrnambool children’s library, gentlemen prefer blondes, anita loos
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