Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Vintage copy with thick spine in worn and worn blue boards with orange lettering. Still, binding is sturdy and square and all flaws hidden under a facsimile dust jacket. Early printing with no black and white plates.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$27.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 203 pp. Original blue covers, moderately soiled. Light foxing to edges of text block. Blue and white endpapers. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. DJ has a wrap around picture spine. Wear and short tears to edges w/ mild chipping to corners and spine ends. Small paper lift to spine. Lightly soiled and rubbed. Front flap lists to "The Hidden Window Mystery." Contents nice.
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$999.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: NANCY DREW MYSTERY STORIES #6 - THE SECRET OF RED GATE FARM (pen name of Mildred Wirt Benson), published by Grosset & Dunlap, copyright 1931 (original 25 chapters), 1931B-1 First Printing book/First Printing Dust Jacket (per Farah's - Guides for $1,200), white endpapers, thick light boards with black lettering to spine & peach lettering outlined in black to front cover (format 1 - there were only ever two Format 1 printings), glossy frontispiece illustration with 3 glossy internal illustrations, original "white spine" cover art by Russell Tandy (as distinguished from the "wraparound" or revised cover art found in later books or in revised books from this series), no price on DJ front flap. Lists: Dust Jacket Front Flap: Secret Red Gate Farm (1st printing issue point) Dust Jacket Rear Flap: Blythe Girls - Rose's Hidden Talent Dust Jacket Back Cover: Amy Bell Marlowe - Oriole Boarding School Book rear lists: Carolyn Wells, Riddle Club (1st printing issue point), Outdoor Girls, Blythe Girls, Polly Brewster, Amy Bell Marlowe, Western Stories, Hardy Boys, Ted Scott. Book has no creased page corners, no foxing to outer page edges (slight age darkening/dust soiling only), endpapers are clean and free from any tape residue or staining/discoloration, no tearing or splitting of page block from internal hinges, no former owner's markings or used bookseller stamps/stickers inside, no wear to board edges or to board corners or to spine tips, no age darkening to outer page edges, faint moisture stain to rear board otherwise no spots or other staining to boards, no color wear or surface color tears to boards, tiny bumped board corner. Dust Jacket has tiny nick loss at bottom left on front panel and tiny closed tear with related crease at bottom right on front panel otherwise no chipping, tearing or creasing, hint of wear to spine tips with 'v' losses at spine tip corners, almost no wear to front flap crease (just at flap crease corners), almost no edge wear, no soiling or staining, hint of dust rubbing to white rear panel, no color rubbing to front panel, no spine sun darkening (common defect with the white spine books). Overall a FINE- book in VG+/FINE- condition DJ (not price clipped) of a Nancy Drew hardcover first printing with its original first print dust jacket. I have a number of other hardcover Nancy Drew books up for sale.
Seller: Far North Collectible Books, Anchorage, AK, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Sixth printing. Illustrated by Russell Tandy. Blue cloth with orange and black lettering, blank endpapers. Contemporary owner's gift inscription on front fly, spine sunned and slightly cocked, light edgewear, very good in a very good dustwrapper with internal tape repair along the extremities, spine tanned with short nicks on ends. First volume in this series. Copyright page lists *The Secret of the Old Clock*, *The Hidden Staircase*, and *The Bungalow Mystery*. Front flap lists to *The Secret of Red Gate Farm*. Farah, 1931B-6, Format #1.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.