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Price: US$3.23 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Dust jacket in acceptable condition. Book shows common (average) signs of wear and use. Binding is still tight. Covers are intact but may be repaired. We have 75,000 books to choose from -- Ship within 24 hours -- Satisfaction Guaranteed!
Seller: Bank of Books, Ventura, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$4.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo hardcover in tan cloth boards. Some shelfwear, tanning. Ink on lower edge of text block. Missing dust jacket. Text is clean, clear, and unmarked. Overall a Very Good copy.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$4.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo hardcover in tan cloth boards. Wear on covers and spine, tanning on pages. Text is clean, clear and unmarked. Wear, creasing, and chipping on dust jacket. Illustration on dust jacket is vibrant and bright. Overall a Very Good copy.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$4.66 + shipping
Description: 192 Seiten Artikel stammt aus Nichtraucherhaushalt! DB889 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 259
Seller: Versandantiquariat Felix Mücke, Grasellenbach - Hammelbach, Germany
Price: US$4.73 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Shows wear from age and use. Interior is good with sound binding and no labels. We Ship Daily! Satisfaction Guaranteed!
Seller: Cathy's Half Price Books, Havertown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$5.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 215 pp. The pages are tanned. The fore-corners of the covers are very slightly bumped. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean.
Seller: Persephone's Books, Gastonia, NC, U.S.A.
Franklin W. Dixon. The Hardy Boys: The Melted Coins. Grosset & Dunlap, 1944.
Price: US$6.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Wear to edges of book. Previous stores pricing sticker remains on back of front board.
Seller: Fallen Leaf Books, Nashville, IN, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin W.. Melted Coins, The (Hardy Boys Mystery Stories). Grosset & Dunlap, NY, 1944.
Price: US$6.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tan tweed cover with dark brown lettering & silhouette; multi-scene endpages in brown; slight lean to spine; in no dust jacket; a bit of soiling to edges; b/w frontis; 215pp
Seller: THE OLD LIBRARY SHOP, Bethlehem, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$7.75 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: hardcover no jacket. Writing of fore edge and ttiles noted on decorated front endpaper.
Seller: My Dead Aunt's Books, Hyattsville, MD, U.S.A.
Franklin W. Dixon. THE MELTED COINS. Grosset & Dunlap, 1944.
Price: US$7.95 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: VINTAGE HARDY BOYS MYSTERY STORIES edition. ORIGINAL EDITION brown tweed covers no dust jacket. Some shelf wear and scuff marks to the covers. Some spots to the page edge. All in all very readable and so much fun. Sturdy and acceptable from back in the day. Great to have the original publication. Enjoy!
Seller: The Yard Sale Store, Narrowsburg, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Tan tweed covers, light brown endpapers, and a yellow dustjacket spine. A Good copy in a Fair dustjacket. Book has shelfwear, edgwear, sunning to covers and spine, toning to pages, soiling to edges of text block, and dampstaining to first few pages and inside front cover; DJ has shelfwear, edgwear, bumped corenrs, mars to covers and spine, dampstaining, sunning to spine, and has been price clipped. Interior is unmarked and tight. 8vo. - over 7¾' in - 9¾' in.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin W.. The Melted Coins: Hardy Boys Mystery Stories. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1944.
Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Brown boards are rubbed on edges. Orange silhouette end pages. Pages are tanning along margins, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$8.08 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description:
Seller: POQUETTE'S BOOKS, DEWITT, MI, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin W. The Melted Coins ( Hardy Boys). Grosset and Dunlap, New York, 1944.
Price: US$8.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover The Hardy Boys Mysteries Reprint edition No price on dust jacket no edition printing Not Ex-Library Great reading copy Book is in Very Good condition. Boards are clean, not bumped. Not remaindered. Dust Jacket is in Very Good condition. Minor chipping on dust jacket Not price clipped. Book is covered by Mylar Brodart. All-ways well boxed, All-ways fast service. Thanks.
Seller: All-Ways Fiction, Carson City, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$9.19 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description:
Seller: Basement Seller 101, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin W.. The Hardy Boys The Melted Coins. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1944.
Price: US$9.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pictorial Hardcover. 60s-era printing in blue spine with Hardy Boys cameo, brown and white multi-scene end papers.
Seller: Nelsons Books, Chazy, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Grosset and Dunlap, New York. c1935/Carpentieri 1944 B-12. Hardcover. Edition/printing not stated. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a gift inscription on the front pastedown dated 1945. Book Condition: Good+; shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; light shelfwear to board edges. No DJ. Brown paper over boards and spine in dot/worm pattern with dark brown lettering on the spine and front board. Orange Gretta endpapers; no frontispiece; toned wartime paper. Tinted textblock top. Sound internal hinges. 219 pp 8vo. The Hardy Boys travel south to end the long-standing Rand-Blackstone feud. A clean very presentable copy.
Seller: Books by White/Walnut Valley Books, Winfield, KS, U.S.A.
Dixon,Franklin W.. The Melted Coins (The Hardy Boys). Grosset & Dunlop, New York, 1944.
Price: US$10.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a Very Good Copy of this book in Publisher's tan cloth with dark brown title lettering to spine and upper cover with ornage patterned endpapers.Illustrated by Paul Laune.The dust-jacket is graded Good with several small nicks and tears to the outer edges of the wrapper.This copy has one owner's name to the ffep and half title page.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and there is NO leaning or rolling to spine.With some tanning to the page edges.The dust-jacket also comes well protected in a removable cover sleeve,8vo 215pp First Edition
Seller: Richard Thornton Books PBFA, Old Langho, United Kingdom
Franklin W. Dixon. Hardy Boys 23: the Melted Coins (The Hardy Boys). Grosset & Dunlap Inc, 1944.
Price: US$10.32 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1944. No Edition Remarks. 215 pages. No dust jacket. Tan cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Franklin W. DIXON. The Melted Coins (Hardy Boys Mystery Stories, Volume 23). Grosset & Dunlap, 1944.
Price: US$12.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tan tweed hardcover with orange endpapers
Seller: Fallen Leaf Books, Nashville, IN, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin W.. HARDY BOYS: THE MELTED COINS. Grosset & Dunlap, 1944.
Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tan bdng/pictorial ep
Seller: Novel Ideas Books & Gifts, Decatur, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A later printing. Small octavo bound in tan tweed cloth covered boards with dark brown lettering and design, top edge dark blue, illustrated endpapers. Faintly musty, presentation stamp on half-title page, else very good in a very good (a few short closed edge tears) dust jacket.; 215 pages
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$14.50 + shipping
Description: Hardcover - Later printing. 1950s edition with the beige boards with dark brown lettering, orange and white illustrated scenic endpapers by Gretta. Plain frontispiece. Frank and Joe investigate a burglary at a Seneca Indian reservation in upstate New York Illustrated by Paul Laune. Original text with 25 chapters, 215 pp. Good overall ( book plate, gift inscription, minor wear to covers), no dust jacket.
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Franklin W. Dixon. The Melted Coins. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1944.
Price: US$14.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This is a Hardy Boys Mystery with the yellow spine on the dust jacket. The dust jacket is in a Mylar type protector and has edge wear and is lightly rubbed and soiled. The covers and spine have moderate wear and there is light soiling to the page edges. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Emily's Books, Brainerd, MN, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin W.. Hardy Boys, The Melted Coins (no. 23). Grosset & Dunlap (1944), New York, 1944.
Price: US$14.96 + shipping
Description: light beige with dark brown lettering good to very good in torn dust jacket,
Seller: Ken Saunders, Stirling, ON, Canada
Dixon, Franklin W.. The Melted Coins. Grosset & Dunlap, NY, 1944.
Price: US$14.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: # 23 in the series, Printing 1948A-8 according to Hardy and Hardy Investigations. Brown tweed hardcover with orange endpapers. The dustjacket shows some edgewear with staining and chipping and is protected in a mylar cover.
Seller: Dogwood Books, Rome, GA, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin W.. THE HARDY BOYS - THE MELTED COINS. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1944.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Matte pictorial boards with turquoise spine, Hardy Boys cameo. With brown and white "multi-scene" endpapers. With barely any wear - a crisp, clean, vintage copy.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo; G+/G+; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine, yellow with black print, illustration; DJ in mylar, light edgewear but clean and bright; Boards in tan cloth with brown print, slight wear to spine caps, else clean and strong; Text block has blue-tinted top edge, name in ink on front flyleaf, else clean and tight; vi, 215 pages, frontispiece. 1330493. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin. MELTED COINS. Grosset & Dunlap, New York NY, 1944.
Price: US$16.25 + shipping
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn at edges. Previous owner's name; Brown cover with orange endpapers. DJ flap lists to Crooked Arrow, Lone Ranger on back DJ flap, Tom Quest on back of DJ; Hardy Boys; Vol. 23; B&W Illustrations; 215 pages
Seller: Gibson's Books, New Hope, AL, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin W.. Hardy Boys 23: the Melted Coins. Grosset & Dunlap, 1944.
Price: US$16.28 + shipping
Condition: New
Description:
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
DIXON, Franklin W.. The Hardy Boys: The Melted Coins. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1944.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good hardcove with blue spine, pictorial front cover. Multi-scene endpapers. Some wearing at spine tips and corners. Very good interior. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin W.. The Melted Coins (Hardy Boys, No. 23). Grosset & Dunlap, 1944.
Price: US$19.62 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good copy with light shelf wear, large corner stain on front and back although not throughout, also an inner corner stain near the spine on title page; dust jacket has water damage around the bottom of the spine, else good. This book has 25 chapters.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: There is a very small nick in the spine top and some rubbing on the bottom edges. The jacket has several small edge tears which were taped on the reverse side with glue stains showing through to the front. ; This title lists last on the jacket ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: Novel Ideas Books & Gifts, Decatur, IL, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin W.. The Hardy Boys The Melted Coins. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1944.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: #23 Version IV, tan composition binding, listing to self on front dj flap and inside the book. Based on back jacket ads, issued in 1944. Tanned war time browned pages else near fine in chipped but unclipped dj with large piece missing from back jacket panel, no previous owner's marks.
Seller: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Later printing. 215pp. Illustrated by Paul Laune. Tan tweed illustrated cloth stamped in brown, brown and white illustrated endpapers, blue top stain. Light abrasion on top corner of front board, spine ends and corners lightly bumped, spine cocked, very good lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin W. 23: Hardy Boys: The Melted Coin. Grosset & Dunlap, NY, 1944.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: dj w/lite chipping, unclipped price, in mylar; beige c w/brown titles; illustrated end papers; lists to Chinese Junk on dj flap Size: 12 vo
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin W.. Melted Coins, The: The Hardy Boys. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1944.
Price: US$24.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 215 pp. 5 1/8 x 7 5/8. Tan cloth covered boards, stamped in brown on front and spine. Yellow dj, damp-stained in a couple of spots, with tiny tears at head/foot of spine. Residue of label on ffep. Ad on front flap lists Hardy books up thru Wailing Siren,
Seller: Blue Awning Books, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG+ Bookplate, Ink Name/Very Good + Dj. Later Printing. This is a nice copy of an early edition with neat bookplate under front dust jacket flap. Orange picture endpapers.
Seller: Black Dog Books, Emerson, NJ, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin W.. The Melted Coins: The Hardy Boys. Grosset and Dunlap, U S. A., 1944.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 215pp Tan, "tweed" cover with brown lettering and silhouette on front cover Orange endpapers by Gretta Previous owner's name and stamp on half-title page, otherwise book is Fine + Colorful dust jacket has yellow spine Jacket is scuffed with light moisture ripple and faint moisture stain on dust jacket flaps Front jacket flap lists to The Wailing Siren Mystery and rear cover list to Rick Brant title-The Phantom Shark
Seller: First Choice Books, coeurd'Alene, ID, U.S.A.
Franklin W Dixon. THE SHORE ROAD MYSTERY- 1944A-28 the hardy boys. Grosset and Dunlap, us, 1944.
Price: US$29.99 + shipping
Description: the is printing 1944A-28 per Carpentieri which is first switch on title page from THE HARDY BOYS to THE HARDY BOYS MYSTERY STORIESprior owners bookplate vgTanning some cracking look at pictures
Seller: Happy Heroes, Monroe, NJ, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin W.. The Twisted Claw (Hardy Boys, Book 18). Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1944.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 217 pages; [1944] early printing. Of #18 in the Hardy Boys series, originally issued in 1939. This is a wartime edition dating to about 1944, with Melted Coins listed as the most recent title on the front dust jacket flap, and "Flying Express" the last title on the aftertext ad. Unusual regarding the lack of a Wartime paper notice on title page. A handsome and very neat copy in light brown, stippled pattern composition covered boards; titling in darker brown. Orange Gretta pictorial endsheets. Yellow spine dust jacket features cover art by Laune. Dust jacket is bright and clean with only superficial rub at edges and a pair of tiny edge chips; a short, jagged closed edge tear at the bottom of the front panel. Prior owner name/address penned neatly on the front pastedown underneath the front dust jacket flap. P. C. J. Code at top corner of front flap. "Thrill Packed Air Combat Stories" catalog on rear of jacket. Expected uniform toning to the lower grade wartime paper. In all other respects a wonderful copy. NF/VG+
Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$31.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardy Boys Mystery Stories; illustrated by Paul Laune. 215pp., brown pictorial boards. A Very Good copy in a price-clipped dj.
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin W. The Melted Coins (Hardy Boys). Grosset & Dunlap, NY, 1944.
Price: US$31.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Early printing. "The Mystery of the Flying Express" is last of the titles listed at end of the book. "The Melted Coins" is the last title listed on front flap. Rear flap lists six Lone Ranger ttiles. Rear panell lists 20 Air Combat stories by four different authors and six Lucky Terrell Flying Stories. Jacket spine has The Hardy Boys Stories logo. Book is in overall very good condition, with age toned pages due to the cheap war time paper. There's a brief gift inscription dated 1945. The jacket is in good (only) condition, with edge chipping and some tape remnants.
Seller: Bruce Davidson Books, Arlington, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is edition 1944C-21 of the eleventh Hardy Boys mystery, as per Carpentieri & Mular Fifth Edition 2004. 23 HBs through "Melted Coins" to jacket front flap; seven Lone Rangers to jacket rear flap, 20 HBs to integral ad bound in at rear of book. Text pages on wartime paper are substantially but evenly age-browned, NOT fragile or crumbling. This harder-to-find jacket with its bold color palette is one of Gretta's greatest, though unfortunately this one is missing about half the jacket spine, and a previous owner also seems to have repaired a horizontal tear near bottom of front panel by applying a piece of "Magic" tape to RECTO, reducing jacket grade here to "fair." 213 followed by 2 pp. ads, including for 20 HBs through "Mystery of the Flying Express." Here reduced from $50.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This appears to be printing 1944B-13 of the 13th Hardy Boys adventure, as per the fifth edition of Carpentieri. (You may, of course, buy if you wish from booksellers who let their computers list every printing of this book as "published 1934.") Kicker to top of title page has changed here from "The Hardy Boys" to "Hardy Boys Mystery Stories" (that happened in 1944), while the glossy frontispiece (which would disappear in 1947) remains. Twenty HBs through "Flying Express" listed to final page. Wartime (acidic) pages darkened to edges, but still flexible and easily read. However, this 1944 copy came to us in what appears to be a 1941 jacket, displaying 20 HBs (through "Flying Express", January, 1942) to front flap, and priced "5050" (NOT the wartime price-fixing scheme "P.C.J.") Rear flap lists 19 X-Bar-X Boys through "Haunted Gully"; jacket rear panel offers 20 "Spotlight Books for Boys" including five Lone Rangers. Grosset & Dunlap were known to use leftover jackets as much as three years at variance, but the presence here of some minor scratches to front board -- not evident to jacket -- probably indicates this was an after-market marriage. Glossy frontispiece and jacket art are both signed (via offset printing, not "autograph") "Gretta." Book will close its own text block; spine rolled about 3/8ths-inch, but still "very good in very good." Orange coloring to jacket spine remains bright here -- not sun-faded to yellow as is common. 219 pp. Reduced from $140.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin W.. The Melted Coins (Hardy Boys #23). Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1944.
Price: US$44.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tan cloth with brown cover and spine lettering and front cover pictorial. Plain paper frontispiece, orange and white Gretta paste downs and flyleaves, yellow spine dust jacket, .65 price in pencil on front flyleaf. Top edge of text block dyed black. Dust jacket flap lists to The Secret Panel, seven Lone Rangers to jacket rear flap, rear panel lists Thrill-Packed Aviation Stories. Nice book and jacket. PayPal accepted.
Seller: Diamond Island Books, Gorham, ME, U.S.A.
Franklin W. Dixon. The Melted Coins. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1944.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Covers worn, soiled, bumps to corners, pages quite yellowed, sound and unmarked. Jacket bright and colorful, wear and small tear at top of spine (titles intact), light soiling to spine and back. Number twenty-three in the Hardy Boys Series, lists to this title on flap, Ted Scott Pursuit Patrol on rear flap, twenty Air Combat titles on back. No listings in book, orange spyglass endpapers.
Seller: Trench Books, Hudson, ME, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin W.. THE MELTED COINS. Grosset & Dunlap, 1944.
Price: US$49.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Grosset & Dunlap, 1944, First Edition, 8vo, 215 pages. Brown cloth with orange endpapers, plain paper frontis, number 23 in the Hardy Boys Series. Twenty Three titles listed on inside front flap of jacket, 20 Ted Scott titles on rear inside flap, 15 Air Combat Stories on back of jacket. According to Hardy & Hardy Investigations 3rd Edition this is the 1944A-1 First Edition. Jacket has a little staining at top back edge, else book and jacket in at least very good condition. Photos upon request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
Seller: Cape Cod Booksellers, Yarmouth, MA, U.S.A.
DIXON, Franklin W. [McFARLANE, Leslie]. The Melted Coins.. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1944.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Frontispiece on plain paper by Paul Laune. 8vo, publisher's tan cloth lettered in brown, in dust jacket (yellow backstrip). Early reprint. Carpentieri 1949 C-12. A clean, tight and sound copy in an unchipped, price-clipped jacket with a few faint tans stains on the backstrip. The Hardy Boys Stories, 23.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin W.. The Hardy Boys: The Melted Coins. Grosset & Dunlap, 1944.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Published in New York by Grosset & Dunlap in 1944. First printing according to the Carpentieri Bibliography. Book good, smudges on front and back boards and spine, name of previous owner written inside front cover, stickers from previous owner on inside back cover. DJ good, bottom half front cover missing to bottom right corner of back cover, top right and left corners missing from front cover.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin W.. A Figure in Hiding. Grosset & Dunlap [1944], New York, 1944.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. [2], iii, [1], 212, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [4] pp. Brown cloth with brown lettering on the front board and spine; black topstain. Orange endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece. Carpentieri 1944A-10. Book 16 in The Hardy Boys series. A Near Fine book with noticeable age toning to the pageblock in a Near Fine jacket with a few hints of edge wear.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin W.. What Happened at Midnight. Grosset & Dunlap Publishers [1948], New York, 1944.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. [2], iii-iv, 213, [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Brown cloth lettered in brown on the front board and spine, dark purple topstain with orange endpapers and pastedowns. Carpentieri 1948B-31. Book 10 in The Hardy Boys series. Illustrated by a black and white frontispiece. A Near Fine book with a bit of foxing to the fore-edge in a Very Good dust jacket with traces of wear and a small wrinkle to the rear panel.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$63.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Triggered by the disappearance of a brilliant young professor, this mystery takes the Hardy boys first to Kenworthy College, where they find a puzzling message on an exam paper. But then, a new clue is unearthed that sends the young detectives to the Honeycomb Caves. After many dangerous encounters, Frank and Joe discover a powerful searchlight in one of the craggy caverns along the seacoast. In the brilliant white glare of the searchlight, the startling secret of the caves is dramatically revealed. Franklin W. Dixon is a pen name used by a variety of authors writing for the classic series, The Hardy Boys. The first and most well-known "Franklin W. Dixon" was Leslie McFarlane, a Canadian author who contributed 19 of the first 25 books in the series. Other writers who have adopted the pseudonym include Christopher Lampton, John Button, Amy McFarlane, and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams. This book was first written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Leslie McFarlane in 1929, with W.S. Rogers as the Illustrator. The 1940 printing of the same Edition changed the wording on page 210 to name the title of the next book to come out. The printing of this same first edition was during wartime in 1944. (Note the statement of wartime production on the title page.) The Illustrator of this printing was A.O. Scott. (See Illustration signature.) Between 1959 and 1973 the first 38 volumes of this series were systematically revised as part of a project directed by Harriet Adams, daughter of Edward Stratemeyer. The original version of this book was rewritten in 1965 by Andrew E. Svenson, resulting in two different stories with the same title. Being a 1944 wartime printing, this book does have some condition issues. But the pages are tight and all in-tact. There are a couple of ink splotches on the front and the spine has some tape reinforcement. While the books is surprisingly clean, there are pencil ?drawings? on one of the front papers and a grade-schooler?s writing on the bottom of pages 56 - 57. Reader Age: 8 ? 12 Grades: 3 ? 7 Book #7 in Series 1st Edition, 1944 Printing
Seller: Bargain Finders of Colorado, Simla, CO, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin W.. The Secret of the Caves. Grosset & Dunlap [1944], New York, 1944.
Price: US$66.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. [2], iii-iv, 210 pp. Brown cloth with brown lettering on the front board and spine; black topstain. Orange endpapers and pastdowns. Pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with a frontispiece. Carpentieri 1944A-22. Book 7 in the Hardy Boys Series. A Very Good+ book with the usual age toning to the pages and a bookplate on the free front endpaper in a Very Good dust jacket with traces of edge wear and a chip to the rear panel.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin W.. The Twisted Claw. Grosset & Dunlap [1944], New York, 1944.
Price: US$66.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. [2], iii, [1], 217, [1] (page of publisher's advertisements) pp. Brown cloth with brown lettering on the front board and spine; black topstain. Orange endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece by Paul Laune. Carpentieri 1944B-11. Book 18 in The Hardy Boys series. A Near Fine book with age toning to the pageblock in a Very Good dust jacket with a small closed tear to the rear panel and a bit of rubbing.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin W.. The Hardy Boys: The Melted Coins # 23. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1944.
Price: US$69.97 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: According to the Carpentieri Bibliography with 15 Air Combat Stories on rear dustjacket panel (1944A-1), this title the last on list at front jacket flap and 20 Ted Scott Flying Stories on the rear flap. The has an owner name and date on in pencil on the front fly leaf. The dust jacket has sunning to the spine and light edge wear.
Seller: Mark Henderson, Olathe, KS, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin W; Laune, Paul. The melted coins. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1944.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Small octavo in red multicolored DJ, yellow spine, vi, 215 pages, b&w front illus ; 20 cm. Hardy Boys (Fictitious characters) -- Juvenile fiction. || Suspecting that their friend has been swindled, the Hardy brothers investigate and find themselves on the trail of a much larger criminal operation. || Hardy Boys mystery stories, [23]. || DJ protected in archival DJ. Very mild rubbing to spine head and foot, extremely gently rubbed corners, faint soiling to page 23, clean pages in tight binding, edge-torn DJ, very mild rubbing and torn DJ spine head and foot, very gentle rubbing to torn DJ corners, one inch tear to front DJ, one inch tear to front DJ edge, light soiling to DJ, else Very Good(+) in Good DJ.
Seller: BIBLIOPE by Calvello Books, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.
DIXON, Franklin W. [McFARLANE, Leslie]. The Melted Coins.. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1944.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Frontispiece on plain paper by Paul Laune. 8vo, publisher's tan cloth lettered in brown, in dust jacket (yellow backstrip). Early reprint. Carpentieri 1944 B-2. Text block a little tanned but not brittle; tight, square, and unworn in a jacket with a little rubbing; tiny chips at corners. and light discoloration to the rear panel. The Hardy Boys Stories, 23.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This attractive collectible edition is in Near Fine condition. Hardy Boys #7 was published originally in 1929. An inscription on the first end paper of this copy is dated June 1944. Its standard wartime paperstock is browning, but not at all brittle. The listing on page 211, at the conclusion of the novel, lists to The Flying Express, Hardy Boys #20. The hardcover is tan with dark brown lettering in the medium fat edition. The front dustjacket flap lists to The Clue of the Broken Blade, Hardy Boys #21, which was published in 1942. The back dustjacket flap lists to Castaways to the Stratosphere, Ted Scott #18. The Very Good condition dustjacket has general wear and some minor chipping.
Seller: Kaleidoscope Books & Collectibles, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin. The Hardy Boys: The Melted Coins. NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1944, 1944.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo.; tan cloth covered boards with brown title and silhouette on cover and spine, hardcover; orange endpapers ; b/w frontispiece; inside front dust jacket flap lists to The Melted Coins; pages browned; former owner's name and address label on front paste down endpaper and former owner's name written in pen on back side of front free endpaper with else a clean tight copy in an edgeworn and chipped dust jacket.
Seller: WellRead Books A.B.A.A., Northport, NY, U.S.A.
Franklin W Dixon. THE HARDY BOYS: THE MELTED COINS. Grosset and Dunlap, us, 1944.
Price: US$79.99 + shipping
Description: CARPENTIERI 1944A-1first edition 1st printing
Seller: Happy Heroes, Monroe, NJ, U.S.A.
Franklin W Dixon. THE HARDY BOYS: A FIGURE IN HIDING. Grosset and Dunlap, us, 1944.
Price: US$79.99 + shipping
Description: CARPENTIERI 1941-5
Seller: Happy Heroes, Monroe, NJ, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin W. (Mc Farlane, Leslie). The Melted Coins. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1944.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Text is clean. Brown cover, showing normal wear, corners and spine lightly rubbed. Dust jacket shows wear, unfortunate large closed tear to front panel, spine of DJ sunfaded. Front and rear flaps tape repaired. Orange endpapers. Original text, printed before new revisions. Wartime paper. Previous owner name/address on half title page. Dust jacket lists to this title on front flap, rear panel lists 15 Air Combat Stories, rear flap lists 20 Ted Scott Stories. MAD # 30300-23-4. AXE Format IV. Carpentieri 1944A-1.; The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories; Vol. 23; 215 pages
Seller: Dan Glaeser Books, Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin W. (Mc Farlane, Leslie). The Melted Coins. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1944.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Text is clean. Brown cover, showing normal wear, corners and spine lightly rubbed. Dust jacket shows wear, unfortunate closed tear to front panel, spine of DJ sunfaded. Front flap detached, but present. Orange endpapers. Original text, printed before new revisions. Wartime paper. Dust jacket lists to this title on front flap, rear panel lists 15 Air Combat Stories, rear flap lists 20 Ted Scott Stories. MAD # 30300-23-4. AXE Format IV. Carpentieri 1944A-1.; The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories; Vol. 23; 215 pages
Seller: Dan Glaeser Books, Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin W.. The Melted Coins (The Hardy Boys). Grosset & Dunlap NY 1944, 1944.
Price: US$190.00 + shipping
Description: VG to VG- G HB Front DJ flap lists to The Melted Coins, back flap has Ted Scott Flying stories, & rear jacket has Air Combat strories. Book: some rubbing & edgewear; yellwoing; overall clean & sound. DJ present but has chips, tears, creases, discoloration etc 215 pages
Seller: The Book Junction, Shippensburg, PA, U.S.A.
DIXON, Franklin W.. The Twisted Claw. Grosset & Dunlap, 1944.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [217] pp. DIXON, Franklin W. Grosset & Dunlap 1939 7.5" x 5.25" Illustrated by Paul Laune Hardy Boys Mystery Stories w/ 110-150 on front flap
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin W.. The Hardy Boys: The Melted Coins. Grosset & Dunlap, 1944.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, 1944 A-1. Book near fine, corners lightly bumped, spine ends very slightly bent in. Dust jacket very good, a couple of small pieces missing, some wear, former owner's inscription on verso of front free end paper.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
DIXON, Franklin W.. The Hardy Boys, The Melted Coins. Grosset and Dunlap, New York, 1944.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Printing according to the Carpentieri Bibliography with 15 Air Combat Stories on rear dustjacket panel (1944A-1), this title the last on list at front jacket flap. Uncommon war-time produced Hardy Boys title. An attractive copy of this elusive title, Near Fine but for small ink name at front free endpaper, in Very Good to Near Fine dustjacket, few tiny nicks at spine ends and few flap corners, lightest signs of wear.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
DIXON, Franklin W.. The Hardy Boys The Melted Coins. Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1944.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: DIXON, Franklin W. [215] pp. Grosset & Dunlap Publishers 1944 7 5/8" x 5 3/8" Endpapers by Gretta Illustrated by Paul Laune No. 23 in the Hardy Boys mystery series 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.
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin. The Hardy Boys: The Melted Coins. Grosset & Dunlap, 1944.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Published in New York by Grosset & Dunlap in 1944. Second printing according to the Carpentieri Bibliography (1944A-2). This is the twenty-third story in the series. Book very good. DJ very good.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Dixon, Franklin. The Hardy Boys: The Melted Coins. Grosset & Dunlap, 1944.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Published in New York by Grosset & Dunlap in 1944. Date on copyright page is 1944. First printing according to the Carpentieri Bibliography with 15 Air Combat Stories on rear DJ panel(1944A-1). Book near fine with previous owner's name written on front free endpaper. DJ very good+.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Franklin W. Dixon. THE MELTED COINS Hardy Boys #23. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1944.
Price: US$879.95 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.