Eat and Grow Beautiful [*SIGNED*]

New York: Tempo Books. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. (c.1936). First Edition. Hardcover. [a good sound copy with just light shelfwear, modest soiling to lower edges of covers; the jacket is very lightly stained along top of spine and rear panel, but the front panel is remarkably clean and fresh-looking]. INSCRIBED generically and SIGNED by the author (as "B.G. Hauser") on the front endpaper. "A completely new and more logical approach to Beauty by the man who has been diet advisor to the world's most beautiful women." The author -- later and more commonly known as simply Gayelord Hauser -- was one of the first major diet/self-help gurus of the twentieth century, and is still a somewhat controversial figure, dismissed by some as a quack and a crank but recognized by others as a founder of the natural foods movement. A canny and tireless self-promoter, he landed in Hollywood in 1927 and cultivated a movie-industry clientele that most famously included Greta Garbo, who became a lifelong friend. He published numerous books, beginning in 1930 (this one was already his tenth), and most of his earlier work (pre-1940) are hard to find, especially in such nice condition, and with signed copies exceptionally so. Signed by Author .