Style 5Material: stiffer balloon cloth Colors: red, blue, green, brown Width: 4 1/4 inches Height: 6 5/8 inches Spine: gold text; grape vine image at spine bottom Front: Kent torchbearer image In Use: April 1929 - May (?) 1930 Barry Neavill notes that this design required a large amount of gold leaf and added half a cent per volume to the binding cost. That extra half-cent doomed it to a short life. The seven titles published during summer and early fall of 1930 retained the grape vine on the spine but blind-stamped the torchbearer on the front cover. |