Moderate edge wear with a few nicks, creasing at the edges and a couple of small closed tears. The WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good condition. Light pushing at the spine ends with a little toning and dustiness to the text-block. Volume 2: The BOOK is in Very Good+ condition. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Mild edge wear with a few nicks and a couple of small closed tears. The WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good++ or better condition. Light pushing at the spine ends with a little toning to the text-block. Volume 1: The BOOK is in Very Good++ or better condition.
Both volumes are illustrated by Ralph Barton. Vol 2 - 'But - Gentlemen Marry Brunettes' : The First UK Printing published by Brentano s, London in 1928. 2 Vols Set : Vol 1 - 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' : The First UK Printing published by Brentano s, London in 1926.
Good condition, with a slight lean, rubbing at the extremities, and moderate wear and bending at the corners. Red cloth, quarter bound in decorated paper covered boards. But there is probably no greater example of Cukor's genius with women and comedy than "The Women" in 1939, which was adapted by Anita Loos from the play by Clare Booth Luce, and featured a perfectly balanced all-female cast that included Norma Shearer and Shearer's nemesis Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Godard, and a young Joan Fontaine.
From the likes of "Dinner at Eight," and "Little Women," and moving on to "The Philadelphia Story," "Gaslight," and "Adam's Rib," his touch with smart, timeless comedy was golden. George Cukor is historically known as Hollywood's "women's director," turning out hit after hit with films with inspired performances by female leads. The novel was adapted routinely for the stage and on the screen. Loos retired from screenwriting in 1945, after doctoring the script for "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn." In 1925, just prior to the advent of the talkies, Loos wrote her first novel, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," which would become one of the most famous books of the Jazz Age, and the work for which Loos would become best known.
She was known as a writer who could save any adaptation, taking over the adaptation of the now-legendary pre-Code film "Red Headed Woman" after F. She was a celebrity on the level of Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford, unheard of at the time (or any other time) for screenwriters. Anita Loos was arguably the most famous of the many women screenwriters of the silent era and remaining so well after the change to talkies. INSCRIBED by Anita Loos to director George Cukor on the front endpaper some years later: "Ap/ So now after 25 years you want my autograph! / My love you've always had / Anita." With Cukor's illustrated deco bookplate on the facing front pastedown. Thirteenth printing, published in May 1926 (first printing having been published in November 1925).
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