Hardy Boys, First Edition (Over 1,200 results)

First printing. First edition, first state of the second book from the legendary Hardy Boys series, in exceptional condition. Conceived by Edward Statemeyer in 1926 and soon packaged and sold to Grossett and Dunlap, the first three titles in the Hardy Boys series were all published simultaneously the following year. Their success was almost instantaneous. Part of their popularity and endurance can be directly attributed to the original writer behind the house pseudonym "Franklin W. Dixon," ghostwriter Leslie McFarlane, who later wrote: "It was still hack work, no doubt, but did the new series have to be all that hack? There was, after all, the chance to contribute a little style. It seemed to me that the Hardy Boys deserved something better than the slapdash treatment [.] I opted for Quality." That quality helped propel the series, which ultimately accounted for half of all the Syndicate's sales (Johnson 142). HOUSE ON THE CLIFF is further listed on PUBLISHERS WEEKLY's list of all-time best-selling children's books. Brothers Frank and Joe Hardy would become cultural touchstones not only through the numerous installments in the series (almost 200 in total), but numerous reissues, rewrites, movies, specials, television shows (your intrepid Gen-X cataloguer is especially fond of its 1970s incarnation starring Shaun Cassidy), video games, and other spinoffs - so much so that Hardy Boys are now as synonymous with mystery and detection as their more adult counterparts Sherlock Holmes, Sam Spade, and Philip Marlowe. Both jacket and book are the proper first edition and state ("Bpt" etc.), conforming fully to Carpentieri and Mular. Scarce thus and truly rare in this condition. We find only a small handful of other copies at auction in the last 30 years, with none as nice as this. The best example we've encountered of a landmark that has spanned generations. 7.5'' x 4.75''. Original red publisher's cloth. In original unclipped (stamped price of.50) color pictorial dust jacket, featuring cover art by W. S. Rogers. 212, [8 - ads] pages. Front jacket panel and spine mildly faded. Neat contemporary (1928) gift inscription to front endpaper. In custom red cloth clamshell with matching red velvet interior inlays. Near fine in a very good plus jacket.

Condition: Near fine in near fine jacket. First edition. First printing of the sixth book from the legendary Hardy Boys series, in exceptional condition. Conceived by Edward Statemeyer in 1926 and soon packaged and sold to Grossett and Dunlap, the first three titles in the Hardy Boys series were all published simultaneously the following year Their success was almost instantaneous. Part of their popularity and endurance can be directly attributed to the original writer behind the house pseudonym "Franklin W. Dixon," ghostwriter Leslie McFarlane, who later wrote: "It was still hack work, no doubt, but did the new series have to be all that hack? There was, after all, the chance to contribute a little style. It seemed to me that the Hardy Boys deserved something better than the slapdash treatment [.] I opted for Quality." That quality helped propel the series, which ultimately accounted for half of all the Syndicate's sales (Johnson 142). Brothers Frank and Joe Hardy would become cultural touchstones not only through installments such as this early one in the series (which now totals almost 200 titles in all), but numerous reissues, rewrites, movies, specials, television shows (your intrepid Gen-X cataloguer is especially fond of its 1970s incarnation starring Shaun Cassidy), video games, and other spinoffs - so much so that Hardy Boys are now as synonymous with mystery and detection as their more adult counterparts Sherlock Holmes, Sam Spade, and Philip Marlowe. Both jacket and book are the proper first printing, conforming fully to Carpentieri and Mular. Scarce thus; rare in this condition. 7.5'' x 4.75''. Original red publisher's cloth. In original unclipped (no price) color pictorial dust jacket, featuring cover art by W. S. Rogers. 212, [8 - ads] pages. Trace rubbing and to jacket, with just a bit of wear at the crown. Touches of shelfwear at extremities of book, faint smudge to front endpaper. Else clean, bright, and sound overall. In custom red cloth clamshell with matching red velvet interior inlays.

Inscribed First Edition of Frederick Forsyth's 'The Day of the Jackal' Bound by Sangorski & Sutclifffe In a Unique Pictorial Binding FORSYTH, Frederick. [SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders]. The Day of the Jackal. London: Hutchinson, 1971. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by John Forsyth on the verso of the half-title "To/Sir Dudley/with warmest regards/Freddie Forsyth/15.11.71." Octavo (8 3/8 x 5 3/16 inches; 213 x 132 mm.). [vi], 358 pp. Pictorially bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe ca. 1980 in full red, blue, black and white oasis morocco, front cover with black morocco onlays and silver rule depicting a marksman and crosshairs, smooth spine lettered in silver,all edges silver, red, blue and white head- and tail bands, patterned red and black end-papers, original dust-jacketpreserved at end. Housed in the original full black morocco slipcase. Although the binding is unsigned it was specially commissioned by a collector who always used S & S. As a young journalist posted in Paris in the early 1960s, Forsyth had reported first hand from the scene of agenuine attempt by extreme right wing forces to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle on the Avenue de la Libération. It was this experience which inspired his 1971 novel, centered on anunnamed assassin, codenamed the "Jackal," who ingeniously plots a further threat to de Gaulle's life. Winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel, Forsyth's first thriller won immediate acclaim as "a strikingly successful thriller. It makes such comparable books as The Manchurian Candidate and The Spy Who Came In From The Cold seem like Hardy Boy mysteries" (New York Times). Drawing on events such as a 1962 assassination attempt on De Gaulle, made by Alain de Bougrenet de la Tocnaye, Forsyth returned from years as a war correspondent in Africa to write his novel "in just 35 days, a feat he describes as something 'not quite so crazy when you think of twelve pages a day, times that by thirty-five and there you go, there's your novel" (BBC). Basis for the popular 1973 film by director Fred Zinneman, starring Edward Fox. Preceded the same year by the English edition. Yaakov & Greenfieldt, 231. A fine signed copy.

First British edition of the author's first novel. Octavo, original red cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication opposite the title page, "For Dick and Ruth Epps with warmest regards, from Fredie Forsyth 16.6.71." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Tom Simmonds and Trevor Vertigan. Uncommon signed and inscribed in the year of publication. The Day of the Jackal is the Edgar award winning novel about a professional assassin contracted to kill Charles de Gaulle, the president of France. â The Day of the Jackal makes such comparable books such as The Manchurian Candidate and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold seem like Hardy Boy mysteriesâ (The New York Times).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Hardy Boys #9: The Great Airport Mystery *** SCARCE TRUE 1ST PRINTING IN VERY RARE 1ST STATE ORIGINAL 1930A-1 DUST JACKET.*** OVERALL CONDITION: VG+/VG Published in 1930 by Grosset & Dunlap. 210 pages + publisher ads. In original red cloth boards. Jacket and frontispiece illustrated by Walter S. Rogers. This is the TRUE first edition, first printing (1930A-1) as indicated by meeting all points listed in the eighth edition of Carpentieri s definitive guide on the Hardy Boys:he Book: 1930A-1 1. Original red cloth 2. Hardy Boys 1-9 3. Ted Scott Flying Stories 1-12 4. This isn t All ad 6. Hardy Boys 1-8 7. Ted Scott Flying Stories 1-11 8. Western Stories for Boys 1-9 9. The Outdoors Girls Series 1-19 10. The Rex Lee Flying Stories 1-6 11. The Radio Boys Series 1-12 12. The Famous Rover Boys Series 1-30 13. Gary Grayson Football Stories 1-7 & all 15 points of errata The dust jacket: 1930A-1 1. White spine with red shield 2. Dust jacket blind side ads 3. Front panel: Original first state cover art 4. Front flap: Hardy Boys #1-9 5. Rear flap: Ted Scott Flying Stories #1-11 6. Rear panel: X-Bar-X Boys #1-9 The book is in beautiful VERY GOOD+ to almost NEAR FINE condition for a 94-year-old children s book! Colorful, unfaded red boards with sharp, bold lettering. Square spine with firm hinges and joints and tight pages. Light rubbing to extremities and spine. The always present age-toned page edges and pages. Quite clean boards with very few spots of light external soiling. Very light jacket offsetting to endpapers and a few spots of light foxing. Former gift inscription from a mother to her son dated 1930 (date of publication). A free endpaper is stamped Airport . Text block is clean with no writing, stickers, ex libris marks or dog-eared pages. A higher grade copy! The dust jacket is in VERY GOOD condition - unclipped with beautiful and colorful cover art. The dust jacket is one of the cleanest, least sun-toned examples I ve come across for these early white dust jacket Hard Boys novels (notorious for deep sun-darkening, fragility and proneness to soiling). The spine text and shield are still quite distinct. Rubbing with some light dust soiling and a few stains. Edge wear - chipping, creasing and a few small tears with about a 1 x 1 chip from top right of rear panel. A long vertical crease line on rear panel.Overall, a higher grade copy of this rare first printing in a first state original dust jacket. One of the nicest examples on the market! Book will ship Priority Mail - safely packaged and fully insured. I have bought and sold books and art on eBay for over a decade and have a 100% satisfaction rating. I am now selling on ABE Books. I m a collector first and know what it's like to receive items not matching the seller s descriptions or that were poorly packaged and damaged in transit. That is why I offer a 100% satisfaction, money back guarantee, and go to great lengths to accurately describe my rare, signed and collectible books and post pictures of the "actual book." I carefully package and ship your newly acquired treasure(s) and ship within 1 business day of receiving your order.

Hard Cover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First Edition First Printing in First Printing Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Grosset & Dunlap, 1931, First Edition, 8vo, 213 pages, glossy frontis, red cloth boards, number 10 in the Hardy Boy Series. Ten titles listed on inside front flap, 14 Ted Sott on rear inside flap, 9 X-Bar-X Boys on rear of jacket. Ads at rear of book in order are as follows; TIA, Hardy Boys 9, Tom Swift 33, Don Sturdy 10, Radio Boys 13, Railroad Series 10, Rover Boys 30. Verso of jacket has 34 Tom Swift. According to Hardy & Hardy Investigations 3rd Edition this is the 1931A-1 edition. Shield on spine faded although you can see the outline, very light edgeweat at extremities, else book and jacket in very good+ condition. Photos upon request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

First British edition of the author's first novel. Octavo, original red cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, "The Day of the Jackal was over For John sincere best wishes Frederick Forsyth 2015." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tom Simmonds and Trevor Vertigan. The Day of the Jackal is the Edgar award winning novel about a professional assassin contracted to kill Charles de Gaulle, the president of France. â The Day of the Jackal makes such comparable books such as The Manchurian Candidate and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold seem like Hardy Boy mysteriesâ (The New York Times).

21, [3] pp. 1 vols. 4to. First edition, one of 157 copies, no. 89. 21, [3] pp. 1 vols. 4to. One of 157 copies. Printed by two Etonians, Robert Gathorne-Hardy and Kyrle Leng, a frightful story about the Eton Boy Scouts and a rural outing. Uncommon. Rogers 318 Quarter cloth and boards. Minor rubbing. Tidy, early gift inscription on flyleaf at gutter. Near fine First edition, one of 157 copies, no. 89.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [10], 211 pages. "In this work it is not only a ghost writer of the immortal Hardy Boys who speaks to us: here is a sensitive man who delights in recollection and his charmed readers will rejoice with him. McFarlane's (1902-77) memoirs have a special romance, lyrical and profound." - dust jacket. Book very clean, tight, bright and unmarked with slight peripheral wear. Light wear to attractively illustrated complete dust jacket, now preserved in mylar, with one-inch opening to bottom edge of front panel. An extraordinary copy of this very special life story. Gift quality.

Condition: Near fine. Elaborate bound presentation volume of documents relating to the 1984 sale to Simon and Schuster of The Stratemeyer Syndicate, famous for producing many of the best-known and beloved juvenile series of the 20th century - including The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Tom Swift, and The Bobbsey Twins. Copy presented to Patricia Adams Harr, daughter of Russell Adams and Harriet Stratemeyer, by the law firm (Finley, Kumble) handling the transaction, with dozens of loose paper slips laid-in as page markers and her occasional pencil markings to margins. Harr was one of six partners receiving proceeds from the sale along with Nancy Axelrad, Lorraine Rickle, Lieselotte Wuenn, Camilla McClave and Edward S. Adams. A rich document and seemingly complete record of the approximately $4.7 million sale. Along with the requisite legal and financial documents and contracts, sections notably include financial statements for operations covering 1983-1984 and a brief history of the Syndicate's business and partnership structures. Also included is a schedule of copyrighted works, domestic and foreign, representing not only the largest section of the volume - accounting for approximately half of the total pages - but arguably also one of the most complete such lists extant. An intimate look inside one of the most prolific and important forces in juvenile series fiction in the US. 14.25'' x 9.25''. Original black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine. Xerographically reproduced throughout. Unpaginated, but hundreds of pages some 3+ inches thick, with 28 tabbed sections plus index. Mild handling wear, corners bumped slightly, light scuffing to rear, else clean, tightly bound.

Hardcover. Octavo, 212 pages with 8 pages ads. In Very Good condition with Very Good dust jacket. Spine beige with blue lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Dust jacket with some mild wear and rubbing, primarily to extremities. Head of dust jacket spine chipped with some closed tears to edges. Small stains to text block, rarely impacting interior. Name to front pastedown. First Edition, with blank endpapers, red cloth cover, white spine, Rogers art on dust jacket, six titles on the front flap listing through The Shore Road Mystery, and five titles on the ad in the rear listing through Hunting for Hidden Gold. A lovely unrestored copy. Shelved in Case 14. 1329772. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. First Edition, First Printing, First State.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A fascinating collection of twenty-four very scarce pamphlets and articles on socialism in late nineteenth and early twentieth century England, with an emphasis on the intersection of Christianity and socialism. Present here are:William Ward's very scarce 1905 pamphlet 'Christ and the Unemployed', a Christian socialist take on unemployment in Great Britain. Retaining the front wrap.The second work is an excerpt from Henry George's essay 'The Condition of Labour', an open letter to Pope Leo XIII discussion the labour movement amongst England's working classes. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of the author.Henry Varley's lecture 1901 'God's Settling Day. Recent National Events and the South African War', discussing the use of forced labour. A very scarce work, retaining the publisher's original front wrap.The very scarce 1879 work 'Historical Credibility, with Special Reference to Miracles: A Chapter of Logic for Every Day Life', credited to 'An Ex-Scholar of Oxford', and not recorded by Jisc or WorldCat. Lacking the publisher's wraps.An undated thirty-two page account of the 'Life of Oliver Cromwell'.Coulson Kernahan's 1897 work 'The God and the Ant', a work of devotional and apocalyptic literature. Retaining the front wrap.A 1898 publication of Leo Tolstoy's 'The Christian Teaching', which 'first appeared in six numbers of The New Age, July-August 1898, now completely revised', this edition was published in September of the same year. A scarce publication of a work that presents Tolstoy's belief in Christian anarchism. Retaining the front wrap.Rabbi Hermann Adler's very scarce work on health and hygiene, 'Sanitation as Taught by the Mosaic Law', published in 1893. Retaining the front wrap.MP J. Keir Hardie's very scarce 1905 article 'John Bull and his Unemployed: A Plain Statement of the Law of England as it affects the Unemployed'. Retaining the front wrap.Thomas Naylor's very scarce 1904 essay, which appeared in the Daily Chronicle, 'Yellow Labour: the Truth about the Chinese in the Transvaal'. Retaining the front wrap.A short twenty-four page biography of Leo Tolstoy, removed from another work and inserted here.Aylmer Maude's very scarce 1902 pamphlet 'Right and Wrong', a discussion of morality. Maude, along with his wife Louise, was an English translator of Tolstoy's works. Together they wrote his biography.The fourth edition of John Clifford's pamphlet 'Oliver Cromwell and the Free Churches', issued by the National Council of Evangelical Free Churches, and discussing the lessons to be learned from Cromwell's reign. Retaining the front wrap.John Burns's essay on 'Labour and Free Trade', discussing the politics of free trade and protectionism. Lacking publisher's wraps. Alex M. Thompson's abridged 1903 translation of Jean Jaures speech on 'Internationalism and Peace'. Lacking publisher's wraps.The very scarce 1903 pamphlet 'Socialism and the German Kaiser', which reproduces speeches by Georg von Vollmar and Ferdinand August Bebel, translated into English by C. and A.M. Thompson. These two speeches discuss socialism in Germany prior to the First World War. Lacking publisher's wraps.Robert Blatchford's [Nunquam] 1895 'Some Tory Socialisms', reproducing speeches by Arthur James Balfour and Robert Cecil Salisbury. Lacking publisher's wraps.The scarce 1895 work 'That Blessed Word - Liberty', by Alex M. Thompson, discussing socialism. Lacking the publisher's wraps. Lacking publisher's wraps.A thirty-two page discussion of agriculture in the 1890s.William Sowerby's scarce 1896 pamphlet 'The Agricultural Deadlock, and how to overcome it by rational means'. Without the publisher's wraps.The 1895 essay 'Hail referendum! The shortest way to democracy' by Alex M. Thompson, a discussion of political reform of government. Lacking the original wraps. The very scarce c1894 'Pioneer Pamphlets No. 1', with the three essays 'Why should London grow?', 'Guardian angels', and 'Cockneyfied socialism'. Lacking the publisher's wraps.Tom Mann's very scarce 1896 'A Socialist's View of Religion and the Churches'. Retaining the original front wrap.H. Morgan-Browne's very scarce 'The Office Boy in Public Affairs'. Lacking the publisher's wraps. In a cloth binding. Bumping to spine head and tail, with discolouration to back strip and some areas of discolouration to boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned, with areas of spotting and some foxing throughout. Former owner's inscription in pencil to head of a preliminary leaf of each pamphlet, with the odd further pencil notation. Very Good. book.

Hard Cover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Issue Dust Jacket and 2nd Issue Book.

Hard. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Rogers, Walter S. (illustrator). 1st. First edition, third printing (last page of ads is The Railroad Series) in second printing dust jacket. Published NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931. 8vo., glossy frontis plate+iv+213pp., plus 6pp. publisher's ads. Series order of ads after the story: HB#1-11(Clock Ticked) / TS#1-35(Giant Magnet) / DS#1-11(Ocean Bottom) / RB#1-13(To The Rescue) / FR#1-30(Winning A Fortune) / RR#1-10(Train Wreckers). Red cloth with black shield on cover, block cover titles in gold outlined in black, black spine titles, blank white endpapers. Verso lists ten Hardy Boys titles to "What Happened At Midnight". Publisher's ad at rear lists eleven Hardy Boys titles to "While The Clock Ticked." Dust jacket lists 11 titles on flap, to "While The Clock.". Book is very good plus, clean, bright, unmarked, no inscriptions or toning, with light wear at the spine ends and top corners, small section of color fade to the cloth at the heel, where the dust jacket is chipped. Binding is strong, straight and crisp. Text block is crisp, pages are clean and bright with no markings, inscriptions or foxing. Cover and spine lettering are bright and not rubbed, cloth is clean. Dust jacket is original, with publisher's catalog printed in green on verso. Dust jacket chipped at the spine with wear along the edges and some folds, else very good. Size: 8vo.

iv, 214 [6, ads] pp. Illustrated by Walter S. Rogers. 8vo, publisher's red lettered cloth in partial dust jacket. First edition, first printing with unbattered "T" on p. 31, in a partial first issue dust jacket. Carpentieri 1927 A-1. Only the top 3-2" (diagonal tear) of the front flap of the dust jacket is present; the rear panel lists 10 Books for Boys titles and the rear flap 7 Don Sturdy titles as they should. The large chip to the lower right quadrant of the front panel affects the listing of Tom Swift titles on the verso. Although the jacket is partial, enough is left to see that it is a first issue jacket. 1928 ink Christmas gift inscription and 1" circular holiday sticker on front free endpaper; a few light tan stains to the first few pages; otherwise clean, unworn, tight and sound. The dust jacket has a large chip affecting the lower right quadrant of the front panel, another smaller chip at the upper left corner, and an abrasion from the removal of a price sticker, upper right. The Hardy Boys Stories, 1.

Second American edition of Frost's first published work. Octavo, original beige linen cloth, engraved title page. Signed and dated by the poet on the title page, "Robert Frost February 25 1936." In very good condition. Small ownership name. Frost's first commercially published book of poems, A Boy's Will was first published in 1913 by David Nutt in London, with a dedication to Frost's wife, Elinor. Its first American edition would come two years later, in 1915, through Henry Holt and Company. Like much of Frost's work, the poems in A Boy's Will thematically associate with rural life, nature, philosophy, and individuality, while also alluding to earlier poets including Emily Dickinson, Thomas Hardy, William Shakespeare, and William Wordsworth.â Despite the first section of poems having a theme of retreating from society, then, Frost does not retreat from his literary precursors and, instead, tries to find his place among them.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. HBDJ,1931 A-1 True First Printing, 1st Edition, IN Photo LASER Color COPY OF 1ST Edition DUSTJACKET with all the Points, NF-/NF+, AS-IS. Book has bright Red Cloth boards and all lettering is very clear and unfaded & is DarkGold outlined in Black Lettering. Binding (mild spine lean and a just a tad shaken) is tight, Small purple stamp can be seen at the very top of some pages and the back blank endpaper has a light shadow fox of where possibly a piece of paper was stored there for many years. Pretext Lists thru This Title & also list of Ted Scott Thru Danger Trails, 213 pgs + ADS,Back of the book has 6 pages of advertisements with the .Back of the book has 6 pages of advertisements with the First Listing Hardys Thru Great Airport Mystery, (this is the indicator it's the true 1st printing by the way). , Glossy Frontispiece Joe He Shouted & Sprang Forward, is Intact of Boy on Ground with 3 others in Nickers & Shining a Flashlight on Boy on Ground, and Blank endpapers have no writing (small purple stamp of a name in the back endpaper and the front blank endpaper has a section near the middle where some of the white was pulled away a bit). Slight FoX Wear Endpapers,

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. NANCY DREW MYSTERY STORIES #6 - THE SECRET OF RED GATE FARM (pen name of Mildred Wirt Benson), published by Grosset & Dunlap, copyright 1931 (original 25 chapters), 1931B-1 First Printing book/First Printing Dust Jacket (per Farah's - Guides for $1,200), white endpapers, thick light boards with black lettering to spine & peach lettering outlined in black to front cover (format 1 - there were only ever two Format 1 printings), glossy frontispiece illustration with 3 glossy internal illustrations, original "white spine" cover art by Russell Tandy (as distinguished from the "wraparound" or revised cover art found in later books or in revised books from this series), no price on DJ front flap. Lists: Dust Jacket Front Flap: Secret Red Gate Farm (1st printing issue point) Dust Jacket Rear Flap: Blythe Girls - Rose's Hidden Talent Dust Jacket Back Cover: Amy Bell Marlowe - Oriole Boarding School Book rear lists: Carolyn Wells, Riddle Club (1st printing issue point), Outdoor Girls, Blythe Girls, Polly Brewster, Amy Bell Marlowe, Western Stories, Hardy Boys, Ted Scott. Book has no creased page corners, no foxing to outer page edges (slight age darkening/dust soiling only), endpapers are clean and free from any tape residue or staining/discoloration, no tearing or splitting of page block from internal hinges, no former owner's markings or used bookseller stamps/stickers inside, no wear to board edges or to board corners or to spine tips, no age darkening to outer page edges, faint moisture stain to rear board otherwise no spots or other staining to boards, no color wear or surface color tears to boards, tiny bumped board corner. Dust Jacket has tiny nick loss at bottom left on front panel and tiny closed tear with related crease at bottom right on front panel otherwise no chipping, tearing or creasing, hint of wear to spine tips with 'v' losses at spine tip corners, almost no wear to front flap crease (just at flap crease corners), almost no edge wear, no soiling or staining, hint of dust rubbing to white rear panel, no color rubbing to front panel, no spine sun darkening (common defect with the white spine books). Overall a FINE- book in VG+/FINE- condition DJ (not price clipped) of a Nancy Drew hardcover first printing with its original first print dust jacket. I have a number of other hardcover Nancy Drew books up for sale.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, Stated First British Printing, 1954. Pre Series List Thru Clue Velvet Mask ,VG/VG-. AS-IS, Pre Series List Thru Clue Velvet Mask , SCARCE DUSTJACKET HAS MODERATE EDGEWEAR and slight browning to back edge DJ. THE BOOK IS IN VG+ SHAPE, WITH NO MARKS OR WRITING , . BACK OF DJ HAS 4 B/W & RED COMIC LIKE ILLUSTRATIONS OF NANCY WITH HER HOLDING LANTERN IN LAST 1, WITH BLURB ABOUT NEXT ADVENTURE , BUNGALOW MYSTERY, BACK INNER FLAP LISTS GREAT AIRPORT MYSTERY HARDY BOYS & ENID BLYTON NOW FOR A STORY, BLUE Spine DJ WITH #2 AT BTM in White with HH & Son in Black, 224 pages with THICK turquoise GREEN boards with Nancy with Spyglass. FRONT INNER FLAP DJ LISTS THRU CLUE OF VELVET MASK OR 30 TITLES, WITH PRICE INNER FLAP 6/- NET, BACK INNER FLAP LISTS GREAT AIRPORT MYSTERY HARDY BOYS & ENID BLYTON NOW FOR A STORY SHOWS 5/- NET Price, , SCARCE DUSTJACKET HAS EDGEWEAR, light wear Scuff & small mended Tears creases near edges- There is a small tear and creasmark on the jacket front at the bottom ,BLUE Spine DJ has small Chips AT ENDS not affecting Text WITH #2 AT BTM in White with HH & Son in Black has scuffing, Tiny light crease along Spine DJ at Btm End, BACK DJ HAS Comic Like Drawings in Red & B&W Figure NANCY WITH Clue in Diary At Btm with Word READ Printed, Dustjacket has mild shelfwear Tiny Chips Tears Extremities, Interior Nice tight Clean, Illustrated DARK BLUE & white ILLUSTRATED DIGGER ENDPAPERS, B/W FRONTISPIECE by R. H. Tandy And that isn t the Worst Look Up There,NO OTHER INTERNALS, FRONT INNER FLAP DJ LISTS THRU CLUE OF VELVET MASK OR 30 TITLES, WITH PRICECLIPPED DJ ,SHOWS 2 OLD WOMEN IN ATTIC 1 WEARING YELLOW SHAWL & other in Long Black dress with White Collar WATCHING Blonde HAIRED NANCY DREW WEARING BLUE & WHITE POLKA DOT TOP & ORANGE SKIRT GOING THRU Framed PAINTINGS WITH HER HANDON WALL, 1ST BRITISH EDITION.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, New York, 1935, 219 pages with 1 page of ads. Illustrated by J. Clemens Gretta (Gretter). Tan cloth with brown lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket with yellow spine and picture of the Hardy Boys, frontispiece, and orange boy in tree endpapers by Gretta. Top edge of pages died blue. Copyright page cites no titles while ad at rear lists to 12th title (published 1933) and front jacket flap lists to 13th title (published 1934). According to Carpentieri and Mular ((Seventh edition, 2016), this volume was published in 1935 and is the FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition (1935A-1). Condition: Very Good+ in Good+ DJ. Bump to bottom of spine. Light foxing on page edges. DJ has wear along edges with 2 two inch tears at front on spine. Overall a beautiful, tight and clean early printing of the 14th volume in the popular "Hardy Boys" series. In March 2021 I added early editions of nine volumes on AbeBooks (#2,4,6,7,8,10, 12,14, and 15).

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. HBDJ, 1933, 1ST Edition, 2nd Printing, with 1st Edition White Spine Dustjacket ,NF-/VG, AS-IS, THICK brown cloth with Silhouette of Boys on Front, Overall the book and dust jacket are in very good condition. Dust jacket meets all points for a true 1st edition of this title by listing to Footprints under the window on the front flap, 8 Hal Keen titles on the back Ending with Doom of Stark House and 11 Western Stories for Boys titles on the back DJ flap ends with X Bar boys Smoky Valley. Backside of the Dust jacket lists other series book titles in black ink. Dustjacket has some Light moisture staining & some wear through on the back flap fold. DJ front flap fold has some light wear as well. DJ Front has the always colorful Gretta artwork that is nice and vivid of 2 Boys in Suits at Beach Climbing Down Ladder Wearing Hats getting into Boat. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover. Book is a 1st edition 2nd printing of this title. Book has tiny penciled numbers inside with a tight spine and orange and white Gretta endpapers. Books Outer cover is very nice and has a tick of whitening stain at the top of the boards on both sides of the book. DJ Light Scuff Front Fold & Tiny Chips Tears extremities, Spine DJ tiny Chip Top Takes out T in Footprints & Light Stain Bottom, Publishers Blue DyeStain Top Pgs Outer Edge, .The main difference between the 1st and the 2nd printing of the Book is the 1st lists through #11 in the back of the book and this printing lists to Footprints in the back of the book. Overall an extremely tough to find Hardy Boys book from 1933 to add to your collection.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing with dustjacket! Grosset & Dunlap, 1928A-1, with the first issue typo of "wtih" on line 25, page 4. Pages are crisp, with no loose pages or binding. The dust jacket is in bright and wonderful condition. Minor piece missing on Dj spine tip, otherwise, it has bright colors with ads on the back. There is some browning of pages natural to the years. No inscriptions and not an ex-library book.

Hardcover. Condition: NF. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair to Good. First Edition. First printing. A clean and bright NF copy in a fair to good first state dust jacket. Has all first edition points: The dust jacket has first three Hardy Boys titles described on front flap; there are seven Don Sturdy titles on rear flap; the Tom Swift list at rear of book lists 29 titles; Line 12 on page 31 has the crisp undamaged "t" in "talking." Scarce first edition of the first Hardy Boys book. Book.

iv, 214 [6, ads] pp. Illustrated by Walter S. Rogers. 8vo, publisher's red lettered cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Carpentieri 1929 A-1. Some very slight light spotting to the upper right quadrant of the front panel of the red cloth; a bright, tight and sound copy in a jacket with a chip at the top of the backstrip, removing all of the title lettering, and a diagonal chip at the bottom of the spine removing half of the imprint. There are a few other smaller chips at extremities; but on the whole an attractive example. The Hardy Boys Stories, 8.

Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Pages heavily toned. POINTS: First edition, early printing with "The Melted Coins" being the last title listed on the inside front flap; the "wartime" statement on the title page; and 26 "Air Combat Stories" listed on the back cover of the dust jacket. Owner name.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Paul Laune (illustrator). First edition. A true first edition of the eighteenth work to be published following the Hardy Boys, complete with a repaired original dust wrapper. Detective Fenton Hardy tells his sons Frank and Joe that a gang of smugglers is operating locally, and he may need their help to catch them.Debuting in 1927, the Hardy Boys is a sequence of several mystery series for the young published by ghost writers under the pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon. They have featured in numerous series, with the longest series (of which this book is part) running to one hundred and ninety titles.With illustrations by Paul Laune.In the original dust wrapper, which has been expertly repaired to the spine and is unclipped.The first edition, first impression, with 'The Twisted Claw' being the final title listed to the copyright page and front flyleaf, fourteen titles listed to the rear wrap, and seventeen titles listed to the rear flyleaf. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with an unclipped dust wrapper. Externally generally smart; a little occasional wear to the boards and bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Dust wrapper, which has been repaired to the head and tail, is just a touch sunned to the spine, but otherwise in excellent condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, New York, 1928, 212 pages + 8 pages of ads. llustrated by Walter S. Rogers. Tan cloth with brown lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket with white spine, frontispiece, and orange boy in tree endpapers by Gretta. Top edge of pages died blue. Copyright page cites first six titles while ad at rear lists to 12th title (published 1933) and front jacket flap lists also to 13th title (published 1934). According to Carpentieri and Mular ((Seventh edition, 2016), this volume was published in 1936 and is the 15th printing of the First Edition (1936A-15). Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ. Slight bumping to top and bottom of spine. Tiny amount of foxing on page edges. DJ has some wear on edges. DJ spine sunned such that the shield is pink rather than red. Overall a beautiful, tight and clean early printing of the 6th volume in the popular "Hardy Boys" series. In March 2021 I added early editions of nine volumes on AbeBooks (#2,4,6,7,8,10, 12,14, and 15).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A near fine, clean and tight hardcover copy that has a light bump to lower right corner. Otherwise, Fine. Jacket brodart covered is in good+ condition. Jacket is bright and clean. Chips and small pieces missing from all four corner folds. Chips and small pieces missing to top and bottom of jackets spine with a two inch tear to bottom of jacket spine. FIRST EDITION, 2ND PRINTING. The last title in this twelve volume series. Please see pictures listed with this copy. *** WE BOX AND SHIP ALL BOOKS WITH USPS TRACKING. *** WE HAVE BEEN BUYING AND SELLING USED BOOKS FOR OVER 35 YEARS.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HARDBACK NODustJacket, X-Library book, 1927, 1st edition, 1st printing, Pre-Text Lists Thru Secret of Old Mill as 1st edition should,First Printing as indicated by a complete "t" in "talking" on p. 31 ,LINE 12,DARK greenBrown lettering on red cover, Interior bk GOOD-/Exterior Cover GOOD +, AS-IS, NOJACKET, RED cloth Cover Has Slight Darkening, Some Rub, Interior Nice tight Relatively Clean light FOX, WeAr, Ads in Back starting with "This Isn't All!", Tom Swift Series 29 titles ending with Airline Express, Don Sturdy 7 titles ending Among Gorillas,Radio Boys Series, Garry Grayson Football Series, Ending with Western Stories For Boys with 5 titles X-BAR X-BOYS Round-Up Being Last Title Listed , 214 pages, Book number 1 in the Hardy Boys series- The Tower Treasure. RED Cloth boards are Faded Some with some lettering faded/worn away as well as wear on the corners. HB Spine Cvr, which is soiled some with slightly faded lettering, Has Light Soil, some wear on the ends, as on COVER SPINE there are the White letters 'F" and 'D" and a number under that in white Near BaseSpine. Appears this was a X-Library book at some point and there is still a card pocket in the back (with the removable card inserted still!). Binding is quite shaken and there is a spine lean. The book is a bit fragile to handle but for a 82 year old first printing that was used as a library book at some point, it's held up rather well. Glossy frontispiece intact but some webbing starting to show on the binding there (webbing also showing some on the back blank endpaper). Pages have a few soiled spots but overall very clean. Back of the book has 5 pages of advertisements including 29 Tom Swifts, 7 Don Sturdys, 10 Radio Boys tiTLes, 5 Garry Graysons and 5 Western Stories for Boys titles. Also the letter 't' in "talking" on page 31, line 12 is complete. A tough, tough book to locate and a cool part of Hardy history since it's the very first printing of the first title in the series.