And Never Been Kissed

New York: Macmillan, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Near Fine in a Good jacket, clipped at the bottom corner but priced ($2.75) at the top, faded on the panels, generally rubbed on the surface and at the edges. Brown buckram, lightly bumped at the head and foot of the spine, with gilt lettering and decorations. Square and firmly bound, a quite clean copy. A novel that seemingly has no relation to the 1999 film starring Drew Barrymore and David Arquette. Instead, it is the story of two "bosom friends" as they lurch closer and closer to the 16th birthdays when they each will "obviously wake up a gorgeous and ravishing creature." Advertised on the jacket as "the low-down on the female of the species.