Mildred Benson (81 results)

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.

Condition: New.

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. 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.

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 (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: 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!

Condition: New. In.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Thelma Gooch (illustrator). Mildred Wirt Benson (1905-2002) wrote some 130 books for girls, including the esteemed early Ruth Darrows (aviatrix), the Penny Parkers, and of course the Nancy Drews (they were going to call her "Stella Strong") and Dana Girls for the Stratemeyer Syndicate under the pen name "Carolyn Keene." She didn't often fail, but for whatever reason, the character "Doris Force" was an orphan, and so turned out to be the brief, wandering, 1931 four-book "starter set" that bore that fictional orphan's name. Starting on quality paper with glossy internal plates at Henry Altemus & Co., the series was quickly taken over by M.A. Donahue, which continued quality production (as here), but finally sloughed the property off on Goldsmith, where it died without further issue on poor paper with no remaining internal illustrations. (The cheap Goldsmith incarnations are common, these Donohues are not.) Actually, Mildred Wirt wrote only the first two books -- this one included. Walter Karig wrote the third and fourth. We downgrade this copy from "very good" to "good" due to considerable bleaching to board edges from having once been damp, and we'll call the jacket "fair" with chunks missing from top of front panel and, of course, from top and bottom of spine. Jacket, frontispiece and three glossy internal B&W plates are by the immortal Thelma Gooch, while the endpapers are credited to one Arlen Chamberlin. 216 pp., reduced from $52.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 1/4" tears to top and bottom spine. Light wear, creases to wraps.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Bill Gillies (illustrator). Reprint. 5"x7.5"; 208 pages. Blue tweed boards. Blue background wrap-around DJ w/Nancy standing by tree. Dk. navy and white drawing for paste downs. B&W frontispiece. 25 chapters. In print 1950-1961. PON verso ffep. Top edge painted black. List of Vicki Barr series on back flap. Scotch tape has been applied to DJ. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped. Secure ship w/track #. When Bess Marvin purchased an expensive bottle of Oriental perfume, she never expected to stumble into a mystery. Now Bess, Nancy, George, and their new friend Jo are out to unravel the secrets of a mysterious conspiracy, a secretive cult, and a ring of counterfeiters in The Secret of Red Gate Farm.

Hard Cover. Condition: vg-. 210pp; b/w il'd border eps; glossy b/w illustrated frontis; contents clean; binding solid; slight darkening to edges & spine of yellow cover with red lettering; no dj. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Tandy, Russell H. (illustrator). Facsimile Reprint. The originals, just as you remember them,'' were how this series of Applewood Reprints of the original Nancy Drew mysteries were promoted when they appeared in the 1990s, bringing back the original format, text, DJ art, & internal illustrations of the original books from the 1930s for a new generation of readers. This was book #4, first published in 1931; this is the 13th Printing of the facsimile edition from 1994. Hardcover book replicates the original with medium blue boards (paper now, not cloth) with orange silhouette in center/lettering to spine & the orig. glossy frontispiece & 3 other illustrations by Russell Tandy, now all grouped in front instead of scattered throughout the book.These reprints all have new Introductions by famous mystery writers, here, by Mildred Wirt Benson, one of the most prolific authors of the original Nancys! The book is in Fine condition: completely clean & crisp, like new & unopened! Binding strong & straight, pages white & unmarked.-The unclipped DJ is also Fine: bright & clean & unfaded, nicely protected in new mylar cover to stay that way. Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping if ordered by 2 pm weekdays (Pacific); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next day.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Tandy, Russell H. (illustrator). Facsimile Reprint. The originals, just as you remember them,'' were how this series of Applewood Reprints of the original Nancy Drew mysteries were promoted when they appeared in the 1990s, bringing back the original format, text, DJ art, & internal illustrations of the original books from the 1930s for a new generation of readers. This was book #5, first published in 1931; this is the 2nd Printing of the facsimile edition from 1994. Hardcover book replicates the original with medium blue boards (paper now, not cloth) with orange silhouette in center/lettering to spine & the orig. glossy frontispiece & 3 other illustrations by Russell Tandy, now all grouped in front instead of scattered throughout the book.These reprints all have new Introductions by famous mystery writers, here, the most famous of the real authors of the Nancy Drew mysteries, Mildred Wirt Benson! The book is in Fine condition: completely clean & crisp, like new & unopened! Binding strong & straight, pages white & unmarked. The unclipped DJ is also Fine: bright & clean & unfaded, nicely protected in new mylar cover to stay that way! Our photos depict he EXACT book you will receive from us--never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm weekdays (PST); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very Good/Good. The Ghost of Blackwood Hall, Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #25, copyright 1948, Grosset & Dunlap, New York. Hardcover, in Good DJ stored & protected in Mylar. Very Good classic blue tweed cloth boards, very small tear to top spine, bit of fading, overall nice, solid & square. Unmarked. 25 chapters, Original Text. Blue Multi-Scene endpapers. Black top stain, unfaded. Good DJ, nice color, wraparound illustration. Large chips, creasing & tears. Front flap: Nancy Drew; 100100; 100-150 (The Haunted Showboat); Rear flap: Cherry Ames (Camp Nurse); Back panel: Dana Girls (The Clue of the Black Flowers). Plain paper frontispiece. Creamy white pages. 216 pp. 5x7.5 inches. Photos are of the item you will receive.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Blue Tweed; White Spine; Digger. 1933. #10. Grosset & Dunlap, New York. Very Good HC / Very Good Dust Jacket. Original Text. Binding solid & square. Name previous owner w/ short inscription to blank end page. Plain frontispiece. 220 pp. Bit of edge/corner wear. A VG Dust Jacket with bright colors, small tears and wear to jacket edges, small area of discoloration to rear cover. White spine jacket w/ blue Nancy Drew silhouette. Bright clean jacket colors. Stored & protected in mylar. FF: 100100 / 100-150, lists to The Witch Tree Symbol. RF: lists to The Search for the Missing Twin. RP: lists to The Ghost in the Gallery. Written by Mildred Wirt Benson (ghostwriter) under the Carolyn Keene pseudonym. The Password to Larkspur Lane is volume ten of the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, first published in 1933 by Grosset & Dunlap, Photos are of the item you will receive. Ships from the USA, quickly & w/ care.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Pages are clear of marks and notations. Binding is secure. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback. No dust jacket. Cover edges and corners in good shape. Front cover is faded. Spine is broken and has been taped with old cellophane tape. Spine is discolored. Pages are clean, no markings, notes or stains. Ships from Friends bookstore to benefit Beaverton (Oregon) library.

Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in a lightly worn and soiled dust jacket. Decorative end papers with "This is my Book" free of any names. A ghostly figure wheeling and pirouetting in the sunken garden of an old estate, a wrongly-filed law suit, and a case of mistaken identity- How Brantwood's teenage detective extricates herself in this exciting case provides an unforgettable story of courage, adventure and mystery. Presumed reprint as the last title on flap is Double Disguise (#16). Record # 379974.

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hard Cover. Condition: vg-. Dust Jacket Condition: good-. 206pp + ads; b/w il'd border end pages, previous owner name on front endpage, darkened hinges; glossy b/w il'd frontis; text clean; binding intact; wear to edges of yellow cover with red lettering on front & spine; large chip to bottom front corner + other chips & tears to edges of color illustrated dj with lists of titles inside; dust jacket is in new protective mylar; list of Kay Tracey books on dj flap goes to #12. Hardcover (dj).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Near Fine / Very Good. The Clue of the Velvet Mask, Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #30, 1953 to copyright, Grosset & Dunlap, New York. Hardcover, in VG DJ protected in mylar. Lovely Near Fine blue tweed cloth boards w/ dark blue Nancy Drew silhouette and lettering, binding solid & square. Small chips and small creases to bottom edge and top and bottom of spine. Closed tear to back cover along back flap. Creamy white pages, no foxing. 25 chapters (Original Text). Digger endpapers. Dark navy/black stain top edge text block, bright and unfaded. Cameo on spine. DJ lovely color, clean and bright, full wraparound illustration. Price code: front flap P100100 and 100-150 (The Witch Tree Symbol); rear flap Vicki Barr (Search for Missing Twin); back cover Dana Girls Series (Ghost in the Gallery). Frontispiece: Nancy and companion listening near building, "The girls were suddenly awakened to their danger." 211 pages. 5.5x7.5 inches.Photos are of the item you will receive.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. age toned, foxing to page edges, slight musty smell, sticker pull to front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First. Good+ condition book, no DJ. NOT ex-lib. [jfa3].

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. B/W Frontispiece Kay & Twins set out in Pursuit, Front inner Flap lists Thru Mysterious neighbor is PriceClipped but shows code 100-160, NO OTHER INTERNALS, HBDJ, 1934, Later edition, Priceclipped but price code 100-160 still showing, Front Inner flap Lists thru #18 Mysterious neighbor, VG/G00D+, AS-IS, Yellow Gold cloth cover minor Rub with Red Titles, DJ minor rub, wear, Soil & Tiny chips Tears DJ, side edge & Light scuffing along DJ spine, Small Tear Back DJ light Wear FOXi, Interior nice but FOXing, LIGHT Wear, 206 pgs , NO ADS in Back, Back DJ lists thru Joyous Peggy by Josephine Lawrence.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Thus. HBDJ, 1952, 1st edition THUS, Early printing, 4th from LAST title on Front Listing page, VG+/GOOD, AS-IS, Red cloth Cover BLACK LETTERING minor rub & wear ,DJ minor rub, wear & small corner chip on front , with tiny chips tears wear & edge Crease, Light fox stain & small creasetear to back cvr of DJ & back Inner flap DJ LISTS 6 Titles ends with in Sand Dunes , tiny chips extremities DJ, interior pgs nice & clean & Tight LIGHT FOX, Light & small chipsend DJ spine, 204 pgs, ADS IN BACK thru Crimson Brier Bush.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.