first edition
1921 · New York
by Loos, Anita; Emerson, John
New York: The James A. McCann Company, 1921. First edition. Near fine in very good jacket.. First printing, in the scarce original dust jacket, of this guide for ambitious amateurs by the author of GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES and the most successful screenwriter of her era. Loos's second book, co-written with director John Emerson, her collaborator and sometime disastrous husband; the pair had previously published HOW TO WRITE PHOTOPLAYS. In later life, Loos would look back on her partnership with Emerson with clear eyes in her fairly devastating memoirs, describing the disillusionment of going after a "man of brains" only to discover that she was "smarter (truncated)