Mildred Benson (114 results)

hardcover. Condition: good. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Russell H. Tandy (illustrator). 9th print. NOT an ex library book. Water stain line top right edge. Pages rippled. Dust jacket has no chips or tears, price is not clipped.

Hardcover_pictorial boards. Condition: Used - Fine. 5"x7.5"; 179 pages. Nancy's head beside statue on front. double Ovals. Back cover has The Thirteenth Pearl as last listing. Unopened book. 20 chapters. Spine #9514. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, & unmarked. GIFT QUALITY. Nancy is asked to solve a puzzling mystery then encounters a second case. The first concerns a valuable collection of rare books. Wealthy Mrs. Merriam has commissioned a supposedly reputable art dealer to sell it, but soon believes the man is a swindler. The second mystery involves the theft of a beautiful marble statue, rumored to whisper, has an uncanny resemblance to Nancy! As suddenly as it disappeared, the marble statue is returned and is discovered to be a reproduction! To solve both mysteries, Nancy adopts an alias and a disguise, becomes an employee of the suspicious dealer, gathering evidence against a clever ring of art thieves. This book is the revised text.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Book Club Edition. Grosset and Dunlap, New York. c1960 but really 1976 (as per Farah). Hardcover. Stated Book Club Edition on rear DJ flap. Farah Guide lists this book as Type #3 BCE, DJ #2607. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light bumping to head and tail; small stain on textblock top. DJ: Very Good +; light wear to head and tail; sticker glue remnant on the front panel; light suntoning to spine. Yellow grained paper over boards and spine with violet colored lettering on the spine. 180 pp 8vo. In this book, a terrified young girl and the peculiar guardian she fears get Nancy involved in a strange and daring mystery case. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Russell H. Tandy (illustrator). hardcover with dust jacket, tight, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders.

Condition: NEAR FINE. Later printing, revised edition. Illustrated. Yellow spine matte illustrated covers, blue and white multi-scene endpapers. 20 chapters, 178 pp. Textblock bound in upside down - otherwise near fine condition.

Nancy Drew tackles a mystery that professional detectives failed to solve--finding a valuable centuries-old message in a hollow oak tree in Illinois.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Marguerite Gayer (illustrator). 1st. red c w/black titles; lite wear at extremities; ownr's names; 210 clean, unmarked pages, no ads.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Marguerite Gayer (illustrator). 1st. red c w/black titles; owner's stamp; 204 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Marguerite Gayer (illustrator). 1st. red c w/black titles; moderate wear; owner's stamp; 213 clean, unmarked page, no ads.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Frontis (illustrator). 1st. First Edition, First Printing; red c; w/blacka titles; 213 clean, unmarked pages; owner's insc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Marguerite Gayer (illustrator). 1st. orange c w/black titles, some discoloration; lite wear at tips/spine; ;212 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Frontis (illustrator). 1st. First Edition, First Printing; red/orange c w/black titles; 216 clean, unmarked pages; owner's name.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Frontis (illustrator). dj w/chipping, tears, small pieces missing, in mylar; red c w/black titles; 216 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Frontis (illustrator). 1st. First Edition, First Printing; red c; w/blacka titles; 213 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Marguerite Gayer (illustrator). 1st. red c w/black titles, lite wear at tips/spine; 215 clean, unmarked pages, no ads.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Marguerite Gayer (illustrator). 1st. red c w/black titles, lite wear at extemities; owner's stamp; 212 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Frontis (illustrator). 1st. First Edition, First Printing; red c; w/black titles; 213 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Frontis (illustrator). red c w/black titles; 203 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: VERY GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. White Spine; Blue Tweed. 1942. #19. Grosset & Dunlap, New York. Very Good/Good. HC Unmarked. White Spine Edition. Blue tweed boards bright, clean. Nancy silhouette to spine w/ magnifying glass. Binding solid, square. Unmarked. Digger EPs. OT, 25 chapters. DJ present in removable mylar, Good Dust Jacekt, chips to top and bottom spine, loss at corners, areas of soiling and tanning. Black top stain, faded w/ areas of lighter color. Nancy Drew The Quest of the Missing Map. Ships from the USA, quickly & w/ care.

Condition: VERY GOOD. Later printing. Bound in illustrated boards with blue multi-scene endpapers. Frontispiece. Original text with 25 chapters, 218 pp. Very good in matte (flat) finish illustrated boards, yellow spine (prev owner's name, but otherwise a tight clean copy).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Marguerite Gayer (illustrator). dj w/lite chipping, some sunning, tape repair (neat), in mylar; ownr's names; 215 clean, unmarked pages.

Condition: VERY GOOD. Early printing. Illustrated by Russell H. Tandy with plain frontispiece. Navy blue and white silhouette endpapers. Bound in smooth blue cloth. Lists to itself in the book, to 'The Ghost of Blackwood Hall' on front flap of dj. 215 pp. Very good condition (some foxing to edges of textblock) in a fair only dust jacket with rubbing, edgewear, tearing along folds, and missing approx 1" at top of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Frontis (illustrator). 1st. early, not 1st printing; dj w/lite wear only, in mylar; owner's name; red c w/black titles; 216 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Frontis (illustrator). dj w/lite wear; red c w/black titles; 203 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good-. Thelma Gooch (illustrator). First Edition. Appears to be a first edition of the second book in the short series of only four books. Only the first two of the books (both written by Stratemeyer Syndicate author Mildred A. Wirt Benson) are listed on the verso of the title page. There is an original owners name and date on the free front end paper: "Imogene Hunt, June 10, 1933. The illustrations include the frontispiece and three internal plates illustrated by Thelma Gooch, who illustrated a number of girl's series books, as well as pulp publications, throughout her career. The internal plates on glossy paper are (1) "There lay one of the magician's snakes" (facing p. 32); (2) "A large fish flashed out of the water" (facing p. 112); (3) "Where -- Where did you get this photograph?" (facing p. 176). Size: Small Octavo (7 1/2-8"). 216 pages. One volume of the 4-volume set. Item Type: Book. Text block is tight and unmarked, though a little tanned from age. Front hinge shaken and breaks in the binding at the internal plates where they were glued (exposing the webbing). The text is followed by a four page publisher's catalogue. Very Good-minus hardcover bound in green cloth over boards. Worn through to the boards at the tips; fraying at the head and foot of the spine. Title in red outlined in black on the front cover; title, author and publisher in black on the spine. Illustrator: Thelma Gooch. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Teens & Young Adult; United States; 1930s; Fiction. Main Picture: Duncan (pseud. Benson), 1931, Doris Force at Cloudy Cove - Front cover and spine. Picture 2: Duncan (pseud. Benson), 1931, Doris Force at Cloudy Cove - Rear cover and page edges. Picture 3: Duncan (pseud. Benson), 1931, Doris Force at Cloudy Cove - Frontispiece and title page. Picture 4: Duncan (pseud. Benson), 1931, Doris Force at Cloudy Cove - Copyright page with inset of previous owner's dated inscription and first page of Table of Contents. Picture 5: Duncan (pseud. Benson), 1931, Doris Force at Cloudy Cove - Last page of Table of Contents and first page of text. Picture 6: Duncan (pseud. Benson), 1931, Doris Force at Cloudy Cove - Sample two-page spread. Picture 7: Duncan (pseud. Benson), 1931, Doris Force at Cloudy Cove - Last page and first page of publisher's catalogue. Picture 8: Duncan (pseud. Benson), 1931, Doris Force at Cloudy Cove - Pages 2 and 3 of the publisher's catalogue. Picture 9: Duncan (pseud. Benson), 1931, Doris Force at Cloudy Cove - Page 4 of the publisher's catalogue. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1428.

Condition: Good. No Edition Stated. 188 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Condition: FINE. Facsimile edition. Four glossy photographs preceding the title page. Publisher's note. Introduction by Amanda Cross. The original text from 1931. Illustrated and with the original dust jacket art by Russell H. Tandy. 208 pp. plus lists of other series books. Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (lower corners very slightly bumped).

Condition: Good. No Edition Stated. 188 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Russell H. Tandy (illustrator). Facsimile Copy. Clue of The Hidden Staircase was written by Carolyn Keene (Mildred Wirt Benson) and was originally published by Grosset & Dunlap in 1930, This copy is a stated Facsimile Edition of that First Edition and was published by Applewood Books in 1991 and appears to be a First Edition, eighth printing as such. It is unedited and unchanged from the First Edition. It is NOT an ex-library copy both the book and the dust jacket are in very good + to near fine condition. The entire Applewood Books set is fairly popular amongst collectors as the prose of Mildred Wirt Benson has not been tampered with and it has been illustrated by Russell H. Tandy. For better or worse . . . it's how it used to be. Thank you!

Hardcover. Condition: VERY GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. White Spine; Blue Tweed; Blue Di. 1936. #13. Grosset & Dunlap, New York. Very Good HC / Good Dust Jacket. Original Text. Binding solid & square. Blue tweed boards w/ nice color. Light crease to corner. Blue digger endpapers. Plain frontispiece. Black top edge stain faded. 216 pp. A Good Dust Jacket w/ chips top/bottom spine, corner/edge wear, small tears, chips, darkening/discoloration to spine edge & inside rear flap. White spine w/ blue Nancy Drew silhouette, stored & protected in mylar. FF: 100100 / 100-150, lists to The Witch Tree Symbol. RF: Vicki Barr, lists to The Search for the Missing Twin. RP: Dana Girls, By the Light of the Study Lamp. Mildred Wirt Benson (ghostwriter) under the Carolyn Keene pseudonym. An exotic ivory charm and a boy with a hidden identity pull Nancy Drew into a mystery of concealed origins and unexpected danger. Photos are of the item you will receive. Ships from the USA, quickly & w/ care.