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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay by Cornelia Otis Skinner & Emily Kimbrough
- Bookseller: Spirit Tomes and Treasures
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 000212
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Jacket condition: Good Minus
- Illustrator: Alajalov
- Edition: Third Printing
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company
- Place: New York & Chicago, USA
- Date published: 1942
Description
New York & Chicago, USA: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1942 Every young rich teen American girl on her first trip abroad in the 1930's. To paraphrase the DJ blurb, Longing to be worldly yet not of the world but on top of it. Clean peach cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, gilt illustration on front cover. Deckled fore-edge. Binding sound with some age toning of pages, no markings. Owner presentation on inside fly page dated 1943. Dust jacket is intact, but yellowed, minor taping, yellowed, edge tattered and some tears at hinges. Spine darkening. One inch strip of masking tape on front with inscription. Smudge on back flap.. Third Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Good Minus. Illus. by Alajalov. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
spine : The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf. Also known as the back.
gilt : Decorative patterns imbedded into the affected portion of a book. Often appears on the boards or the spine, and may be very simple, to elegant, to ludicrous.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
blurb : The commentary appear on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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