Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady, Intimately Illustrated by Anita Loos - 1926

Boni & Liveright/Grosset & Dunla, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.1000 5.3000 5.0000. 17th Printing. Oct., 1926. Association Copy. Signed and inscribed by Author on the half-title, "" With all best / to Barret Kiesling / hoping he is no / gentleman. / Anita Loos / (brunette)"" Also includes a handwritten thank you letter, folded and placed into original envelope which is pasted to blank side of the frontis. ""Dearest Barrett,/ thank for your // sweet message of/ sympathy ...... Most Sincerely / Anita Loos"" - From the Library of Barrett C Kiesling. [ Barrett C. Kiesling was Publicity Director for MGM (1928 ~ 1960)]. Bound in original cloth backed blue with white boards; no jacket. - some wear, rubbing to edges and slight fading to covers. newspaper pasted to front inside cover; toning to half-title; lacking the ffep. many of the pages have light penciled marking in the margins. Otherwise, clean and unmarked. A Good copy.