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JANET HARDY IN RADIO CITY (Janet Hardy #2.)
Edition: First edition.
Chicago: Goldsmith Publishing, (1935.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second in the Janet Hardy series. "Thoroughly modern" Janet Hardy and her friend Helen obtain jobs acting in and writing Radio plays. 252 pp. Lists to this title on back cover of dust jacket.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (usual rather severe toning to the pages, but otherwise a clean and tight copy, bright dust jacket.)
Book ID: 44711More details Price: $20.00 -
JANET HARDY IN HOLLYWOOD (Janet Hardy #1.)
Edition: First or early edition.
Chicago: Goldsmith Publishing, (1935.). Hardcover - The first book in the Janet Hardy series. "Thoroughly modern" Janet Hardy and her friend Helen compete for the high school senior play. 250 pp.
Condition: Very good overall in blue cloth (usual rather severe toning to the pages, but otherwise a clean and tight copy)
Book ID: 76085More details Price: $12.50 -
HELEN IN THE EDITOR'S CHAIR.
Edition: First or early edition.
Chicago: Goldsmith Publishing, (1932). Hardcover - A title in the Every Girl's Series. When their father is forced to go to a drier climate for his health, Helen and her brother take over running his newspaper - and encounter many challenges and adventures. A young adult novel featuring a "strong self-reliant girl" 245 pp plus 2 pp of publisher's ads.
Condition: Good only in light green cloth - rather severe toning to the pages, gift inscription on front endpaper, some wear to the covers, but still a straight and sturdy copy, no dust jacket. .
Book ID: 86802More details Price: $14.50 -
THE TWINS' SUMMER VACATION, The Page Twins series #5.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c 1930). Hardcover - A title in this series about two twin sisters separated at birth, and re-united at age thirteen - "for the first few years in their lives grow up in ignorance of each other's existence. Then they are at last brought together and things begin to happen. Janet is an independent go-ahead sort of girl, while her sister Phyllis is -- but meet the twins for yourself and be entertained." (publisher's ad) Glossy frontispiece and 3 internal illustrations on plain paper by Thelma Gooch. 214 pp plus 8 pp publisher's ads. Orange and white illustrated endpapers.
Condition: Very good in green boards with black lettering (gift inscription dated Christmas 1934)
Book ID: 67796More details Price: $12.50 -
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
