Description of a First Edition of The Secret of the Old Clock
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Outside: (Note:This is a description of the book without the dust jacket) |
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| Front Cover: | Gray-blue hardcover. |
| Printing on front cover: | Orange type outlined in dark blue that reads "The Secret of the Old Clock/ Carolyn Keene." There is no silhouette on the front cover. |
| Spine: | Dark Blue printing listing title, author, and publisher. |
| Inside: | |
| Endpapers: | Blank(white). |
| Illustrations: | One glossy frontispiece and three additional glossy internal illustrations, all designed by Russell Tandy. |
| Title Page: | Includes the following information: Nancy Drew Mystery Stories(underlined), title, author, names of Nancy Drew mysteries volumes #2 and #3(The hidden Staircase and The Bungalow Mystery); the phrase, "Illustrated by Russell H. Tandy"; publisher idenification. |
| Copyright Page: | A box positioned toward the top of the page contains the following information (see above): "Nancy Drew Mystery Stories/by Carolyn Keene/12mo.Cloth/Illustrated." Lists first three Nancy Drew mystery stories only, along with publisher identification. A line below the box reads:"Copyright,1930,by Grosset & Dunlap, Inc." |
| Back Pages: | Include numerous ads for other series, including the Hardy Boys titles for volumes 1-8; Ted Scott Flying Stories volumes 1-11; Famous Rover Boys volumes 1-30; Don Sturdy volumes 1-9; and Radio Boys volumes 1-12. Two Blank pages follow these ads. |
Current value:Without dust jacket, 0 to 0; with dust jacket, 0.
Information taken from "The Nancy Drew Scrapbook" by Karen Plunkett-Powell.