The Hardy Boys: The Secret Warning
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1938.
Hardcover. 7 5/8" X 5 3/8". iv, 220pp, plus ads. Later printing, circa 1942, with front flap listing up to The Clue of the Broken Blade, number 21 in the Hardy Boys series, rear flap listing to 19 in the X Bar X Boys series, and rear panel listing 17 best-seller tales. Heavy wear to dust jacket, with large 2" X 2 1/2" open tear and losses to head of spine, soiling, sunnng, and open tears to edges and extremities. Tan cloth over boards, with upper board stamped in brown with Hardy Boys silhouette and upper board and spine lettered in brown. Mild wear to binding, with light scattered rubbing and gentle bumping to head and tail of spine. Dark blue topstain. Orange pictorial endpapers. Wartime age-toned papers. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are unmarked. A worn but still charming 1940s copy in dust jacket of the seventeenth Hardy Boys mystery. Very good / fair. Item #3707
Price: $15.00