Louise Brooks Literary Ephemera

  There is all sorts of literary ephemera associated with Louise Brooks life and career, as well as with her legend. Some of this ephemera is vintage (dating from the 1920s and 1930s), and some is contemporary. Examples of Brooks’ related ephemera can be found on a number of pages on this website, while examples of specifically literary ephemera can be found on other pages, such as those dedicated to Film Source Material or Photoplay Editions and Fictionalizations. This HUB page acts as a directory to various LBS pages which contain examples of literary ephemera. It also contains a few pieces found no where else on the website.

— magazine advertisement — This full page magazine advertisement ran in Liberty magazine in June, 1929. It promotes the magazine’s upcoming serialization of J.P. McEvoy’s Louise Brooks inspired novel, Show Girl in Hollywood, a sequel to Show Girl.	— bookplate — This is a scan of the bookplate reportedly used by Louise Brooks. Dozens of them were for sale on eBay some years back. It was designed by Frank Papé, and first appeared in Works of Rabelais, published by Boni and Liveright (Vol 2, page 180)	— 1929 novel — Love Letters of an Interior Decorator is a comic novel by Bert Green which is, as far as I can determine, the first novel to mention Louise Brooks by name. Written in the manner of Gentleman Prefer Blondes, Green’s book is considered a cornerstone of Jazz Age fiction.
— handbill — A little known handbill for Kathy Acker’s provocative adaption of the Lulu lineage (Wedekind-Pabst-Berg), as performed at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London in July of 1984.	— bookmark — David Levine’s caricature of Louise Brooks graces this recent bookmark issued by the New York Review of Books. Levine’s iconic caricature first appeared in the pages of the NYRB, a literary review, in 1982.	— poster — A 1995 poster for Yours, Lulu, a stage play about the life and times of Louise Brooks. This Atlanta, Georgia performance at the SOPO Galleries followed a successful three month run in New York City in 1994.