- Any word = girls juvenile series
- Year (maximum) = 1960
- Price (minimum) = 25
- First edition
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THE INVISIBLE CHIMES: Judy Bolton #3.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Good+ condition in the original thicker light green format with magenta endpapers with the 'flashlight' illustration (a bit of insect damage to lower corner of textblock,sunning to the spine, prev owner's name dated in 1933), no dj.
Book ID: 63747More details Price: $30.00 -
THE DISCOVERY AT THE DRAGON'S MOUTH: Judy Bolton #31.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Very good condition in rust-colored tweed cloth with rust and white 'haunted house' illustrated endpapers (slight spine slant), in a very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 80725More details Price: $85.00 -
HONEY BUNCH: HER FIRST TRIP IN AN AIRPLANE (#12)
Edition: First printing (last title listed both in the book and on both the front flap and the back cover o
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1931.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The Stratemeyer syndicate series written for the youngest readers - little girls between 4 and 8. Illustrated by Walter S. Rogers with a glossy frontispiece and 3 inserted plates. Bound in red cloth with a full color illustration pasted on the front cover. 187 pp, one page advertisement at end, referring reader to lists of series on the inside of the wrapper.
Condition: Very good+ in very good dust jacket (the usual toning to the pages, one plate loose, but laid-in, but the covers are bright and colorful; the uncommon dustjacket, which repeats the illustration on the front cover, has a 3/4 inch chip at the bottom of the spine and some edgewear and rubbing at the folds, but is still in much better condition than usually found - when it is found at all!)
Book ID: 28683More details Price: $45.00 -
HONEY BUNCH: HER FIRST BIG ADVENTURE (#14)
Edition: First printing (last title listed both in front of the book and on the front flap of the dustjacket
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1933.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The Stratemeyer syndicate series written for the youngest readers - little girls between 4 and 8. Illustrated by Marie Schubert with a glossy frontispiece and 3 inserted plates and blue and white illustrated endpapers. Bound in red cloth with a full color illustration pasted on the front cover. 182 pp, 6 pages advertisement at end.
Condition: Very good+ in very good dust jacket (the usual toning to the pages, but the covers are bright and colorful; the uncommon dustjacket, which repeats the illustration on the front cover, is missing approx 3/4 inch at the bottom of the spine and has some edgewear and rubbing at the folds, but is still in much better condition than usually found - when it is found at all!)
Book ID: 28684More details Price: $45.00 -
BETSY BAIRD'S GOLDEN YEAR, #3.
Edition: First edition.
Boston: Little Brown, (1909). Hardcover first edition - Betsy is eighteen now, and out of school and trying to succeed as an interior decorator, to help her father with the mortgage payments. Illustrated with a frontispiece with a tissue guard and 3 glossy inserted plates by Ethel Pennewill Brown. The third and final volume in this uncommon series. 304 pp.
Condition: Fair condition only (some rubbing to the covers and overall edgewear, both hinges cracking, but contents are clean, and binding is still sturdy.)
Book ID: 66289More details Price: $50.00 -
COURAGEOUS WINGS.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Near fine in red cloth with black lettering. Quite uncommon in the original edition, although the 1940 Books Inc edition is easy to locate.
Book ID: 62745More details Price: $45.00 -
THE SILKEN LADDER (A Penny Parker Mystery #5.)
Edition: First edition.
New York: Cupples & Leon, (1941). Hardcover first edition - The 5th Penny Parker mystery story - a girls' mystery story series written under her own name by the author of the original Nancy Drew series. Wirt has claimed that the Penny Parker books were her favorites, with their spunky leading character and the newspaper background (Wirt was a journalist most of her life). Glossy frontispiece, illustrated endpapers. 207 pp. Lists through #6 in the front of the book (two titles were issued each year - thus #5 and 6 were both issued in 1941) .
Condition: Very good minus in red cloth with black lettering (lower corners bumped and fraying. prev owner's name)
Book ID: 63753More details Price: $25.00 -
MYSTERY OF THE LAUGHING MASK.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Cupples & Leon Company, (1940.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The eighth title (and last one listed) in the series "Mystery Stories for Girls" - a rather uncommon book by the author of the original Nancy Drew books. Set in Florida, in the Everglades and at a small beach town, this feautures a girl working for a naturalist for the summer. Glossy frontispiece. 203 pp plus 7 pp of the first chapter from 'The Runaway Caravan,' the first in another Wirt series of books called Trailer Stories for Girls.
Condition: Very good+ in orange cloth with navy lettering in a good dust jacket (dust jacket lists just 7 titles). Gift inscription on the illustrated front endpapers in the box provided for this, usual light toning to pages, chip to upper front corner of dj, slight loss at ends of spine, but overall a clean and tight book in an attractive dust jacket and uncommon thus.
Book ID: 47849More details Price: $120.00