Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Carolyn Keene. The Secret at the Hermitage. Grosset & Dunlap, 1936.
Price: US$4.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: #5 in the series. Good+ condition picture-cover book; bottom board lists 23 titles. The spine has a couple of small "dings." [2101]
Seller: Old Friends Used Books, Manchester, CT, U.S.A.
Carolyn Keene. The Secret at the Hermitage. Grosset & Dunlap, 1936.
Price: US$4.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: #5 in the series. Very good condition green tweed book, no DJ. Bookplate on endpaper. [series]
Seller: Old Friends Used Books, Manchester, CT, U.S.A.
Carolyn Keene. The Secret at the Hermitage. Grosset & Dunlap, 1936.
Price: US$7.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: #5 in the series. Very good condition book in VG- condition dustjacket, unclipped. DJ has light foxing to the spine. Front flap lists to "Black Flower." [2101]
Seller: Old Friends Used Books, Manchester, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$8.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: NOT an ex library book. Book with beige spine. Name on a front endpaper. This book is #5 of 25 titles listed on rear.
Seller: Dorothy Meyer - Bookseller, Batavia, IL, U.S.A.
Keene, Carolyn. Secret at the Hermitage (#5 in the Dana Girls series). Grosset & Dunlap, 1936.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: General wear to cover edges/corners. Green covers. Content pages are clean and unmarked. DJ is very worn with multiple edge tears. 218 pages.
Seller: Table of Contents, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Keene, Carolyn. THE SECRET AT THE HERMITAGE. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, NY, 1936.
Price: US$10.80 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Green hardcovers. Int. good. Black and white illustration opposite chapter one page. Green and white illustrated eps. 218 pages. Chapter book. Minor wear to binding.
Seller: Betty Mittendorf /Tiffany Power BKSLINEN, Ralston, NE, U.S.A.
Keene, Carolyn. The Secret at the Hermitage, Dana Girls #5. Grosset & Dunlap, 1936.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: NOT an ex library book. Clean pages. Dust jacket has 1/4" chip top front at the spine, 1/2" tear.
Seller: Dorothy Meyer - Bookseller, Batavia, IL, U.S.A.
Carolyn Keene. Nancy Drew 13: The Mystery of the Ivory Charm. GROSSET DUNLAP Okt 1936, 1936.
Price: US$12.42 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: Neuware - What secret life-giving power does the exquisite ivory elephant charm contain Can the trinket really protect its wearer from all harm Nancy Drew finds out when the owner of the Bengleton Wild-Animal Show asks her to investigate one of the performers who may be involved in some mysterious illegal scheme.The girl detective's assignment becomes complicated when the elephant trainer's young assistant, Rishi, seeks refuge at the Drew home from his cruel foster father, Rai.While following clues to help the boy find his real father, Nancy learns about an eerie abandoned house. She is harassed by its strange owner, Anita Allison, and the fiendish Rai. How Nancy uses the ivory charm, reunites a maharaja with his son, and brings the evildoers to justice will mystify readers from beginning to end. 192 pp. Englisch
Seller: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germany
Price: US$14.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Pictorial cover. # 5 in the series. Lists to # 23 Sierra Gold. The cover shows some edgewear.
Seller: Dogwood Books, Rome, GA, U.S.A.
Keene, Carolyn. The Secret at the Hermitage: Dana Girls Mystery. Grosset & Dunlap, NY, 1936.
Price: US$14.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green tweed cover. Dustjacket shows some edgewear with creasing, nicks and staining and t is priotected in a mylar cover. # 5 in the series.
Seller: Dogwood Books, Rome, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$14.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Purple boards with black lettering. Glossy frontispiece. # 5 in the series. The cover shows light edgewear with a little rubbing and inking to the rear board.
Seller: Dogwood Books, Rome, GA, U.S.A.
Keene, Carolyn. The Mystery of the Ivory Charm. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1936.
Price: US$15.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Nancy Drew, Book 13 Series; B&W Illustrations; 5 1/4 x 7 3/4; 216 pages; Hard cover is blue with orange lettering on spine. Covers have sunning, fading, rubbing, scuffing, bumping. Spine is seriously faded; orange top of text block. Cover art and end papers are consistent with the books in this series published between 1936 -1951. #13 in the classic series. Missing DJ. B/w frontispiece. Some marks on covers and pages, but text is entirely readable. Piece of clear tape inside front cover, weak rear gutter. Has the 25 chapter text. "The plot finds Nancy, Bess, and George investigating a mysterious boy from India. The boy, Coya, works for a traveling circus, and is treated poorly by his guardian, Rai, also a native of India, who is in charge of the circus. Coya runs away from his abusive guardian and seeks asylum at the Drew home in River Heights. Soon after his arrival, the girls begin investigating property owned by the unusual Miss Anita Allison. They encounter a house "with no insides," and a hidden tunnel. The property mysteriously catches fire, revealing a hidden cache of jewels. Nancy traces Coya's parentage and uncovers a sinister kidnapping plot involving both Miss Allison and Rai. The climax also reveals a secret about the ivory charm, and its mysterious powers".
Seller: Pegasus Books, Farmington Hills, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Book #5 in the classic series featuring the sleuthing sister pair Louise & Jean Dana. Orig. published in 1936, this is a later printing from the late-1940s-950s (listing to DG #13 on front flap & #14 in front matter), with the light green cover stock with the girls in a center design, flashlight endpapers, with 25 chapters, 218 pages, & plain frontispiece. Condition is Near Fine: exceptionally clean & bright, binding strong & square, pages slightly off-white. Very slight rubbing to extremities & bumped corners are only flaws. The unclipped DJ (listing to #13 on front flap, VB #6 on rear flap, ND#28 on back cover) is VG- (minus): bright & colorful with minimal wear, no fading, but a largish chunk missing from head of spine, light soil to rear cover. Nicely protected in new mylar cover FREE! Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm weekdays (PST); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
Seller: Gargoyle Books, IOBA, La Mesa, CA, U.S.A.
Keene, Carolyn. The Mystrery of the Ivory Charm. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1936.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue tweed hardcover shows edgewear at bottom edges. This has the multi drawings on endpapers. There is a large check mark on the top of the third endpaper. DJ shows normal light wear wit tiny tears at top spine, tiny tears and creasing at top front edge and back bottom edge, small chips at top and bottom of front fold. This book lists to "The Secret of the Golden Pavillion" on front flap. Back jacket lists to "The Haunted Lagoon" (Dana Girls)
Seller: All Booked Up, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A later printing. Very good in a very good (edge worn) dust jacket. ; 218 pages
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Carolyn Keene. The Mystery of the Ivory Charm. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1936.
Price: US$24.99 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Possible first edition, printed about 1936. Blue boards with orange print on front cover and spine and orange silhouette on front; bumped and worn; with fraying at the spine ends on the bottom of the boards and corners. Orange silhouette illustrated endpapers, tanning with two prior ownersÕ names. Frontispiece illustration on glossy paper, tipped-in. This is Nancy Drew binding style 2, 1932 - 1937. Grosset and Dunlap hard cover with dust jacket, 1936 edition and probably 1936 printing; Nancy Drew # 13, 216 pages. Illustrated by Russell Tandy. 12mo (5" x 7.5") This was originally published with a frontispiece and three additional interior illustrations; however, only one additional illustration is present, between pages 108 and 109. Nancy Drew titles in the back go to #10 The Password to Larkspur Lane, published in 1933. Dana Girls books in the back go to 5: The Secret at the Hermitage, published in 1936. Judy Bolton books in the back go to 9: The Mysterious Half Cat, published in 1936. The Mystery of the Ivory Charm, Nancy Drew Mystery Story #13, by Mildred Wirt writing as Carolyn Keene. This is the original 25 chapter story. In 1974 the text was revised and shortened to 20 chapters by Priscilla Baker Carr.
Seller: Basically SF Books, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Keene, Carolyn. THE DANA GIRLS - THE SECRET AT THE HERMITAGE. Grosset & Dunlap, NEW YORK, 1936.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 50s copy - Book is like new in gray-green "Tweed" boards, and covered in a colorful facsimile jacket. Dana Girls with flashlight on front panel and illustrated endpapers.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG in Near VG dw. 8vo, vi+218pp, green cloth stamped in darker green, printed dustwrapper. Solid copy of a ca. 1952 printing of this Stratemeyer Syndicate series title. (Series page lists Nancy Drew titles up through The Mystery at the Ski Jump and Dana Girls through The Clue in the Ivy.) Unmarked copy; jacket is price-clipped and has a little wear to edges.
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Keene, Carolyn. The Mystery of the Ivory Charm. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1936.
Price: US$26.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pretty Nice copy in blue tweed boards with multi-scene endpapers Neat name and address of former owner on verso of fep. Tight and square. Price clipped jacket lists to Ringmaster's Secret which makes this a 1953 printing. Illustrated white spine DJ llustrated by Tandy has short closed tear. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$26.70 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No. 5 of the Dana Girls series. Delusional Harold Norton, ex-warden of the Pinecrest Reformatory, accuses Louise Dana of being escapee Nina Regan. Louise clears herself, only to find that Norton continues to stalk her every move. After Louise is attacked by Norton, she is lost in the woods and spends the night with a strange hermit. Refers to Mystery at the Crossroads on front flap of DJ, refers to The Secret of the Jade Ring on the half title verso, refers to Nancy Drew's The Ringmaster's Secret on back of DJ. Condition notes: (v), 218 numbered pp; HB w/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, green topstain, decorative cream/green eps, frontis; t.e. sunned. Cover: green tweed, dk green artwork and titles front/spine; lt shelfwear w/ mild sunning to edges, slight wear to extrems. DJ: unclipped, color artwork and yellow/white titles front, black/white titles spine; modest edge/shelfwear w/head tattered, narrow loss at tail, crinkles to edges, several shallow chips and closed tears. A decent copy.
Seller: Independent Books, Long Beach, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$28.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Thick lavender book. Frontis show man telling woman, "She's a dangerous character, ma'am." Green & white endpapers with two girls examing a sheet of paper. Binding faded at edges and spine, edge wear esp at spine ends.
Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$28.72 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ships quickly. NO DJ. Cover faded. Some pages are stained. No loose or creased pages. BONUS! Includes The Haunted Lagoon: same condition PLUS binding cracked at front endpaper. Mild to moderate shelf/reading wear. Orphans Treasure Box sells books to raise money for orphans and vulnerable kids.
Seller: Orphans Treasure Box, Champaign, IL, U.S.A.
Keene, Carolyn. The Secret at the Hermitage,, Dana Girls #5, Blue/pink DJ. Grosset & Dunlap, 1936.
Price: US$29.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: NOT an ex library book. Book with blue cloth binding, green illustrated endpapers. Stain line top corner of frontis. Pages darkening. Dust jacket with blue background, pink band, has 1/4" chip bottom of spine.
Seller: Dorothy Meyer - Bookseller, Batavia, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$34.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1936. Copyright 1936, this copy an early printing from around 1939-40. Sound copy in heavily faded dustjacket. Lists to self inside book, Gatehouse on the front inner dustjacket flap, to Nancy Drew Tapping Heels on rear flap. Purple cloth printed in black with cameo of two girls with spyglass and necklace on the front, dark green and white endpapers with one girl looking at a letter, top edge tinted dark green, turquoise dustjacket with red band featuring an illustration from the book. The book has light edge rubbing, some uneven fading to the front cover, good hinges, sound text block, small darkened areas at top and bottom of the free endpapers, name neatly written near hinge on front pastedown and on reverse side of frontis illustration, pages otherwise clean and unmarked. The dustjacket is faded to a lighter turquoise on the front panel and spine, some surface loss near top edge of rear panel, minor chips to the corners of the spine ends, not affecting the printed areas, additional very small chip to lower edges, little paper loss. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Seller: Resource Books, LLC, East Granby, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. w/ pointed corners very bright unmarked book Includes illustrations. purple and black, 4 B&w Ills. green and white end papers
Seller: Hook's Book Nook, Pottstown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$38.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pub by Grosset & Dunlap, copyright 1936, 1st Edition. Lists to itself & Nancy Drew Hollow Oak on verso of Title Page. NOT exLib. VG or better cond. hardcover, no dj. Purple cloth over bds w/ reverse black silhouette & black pict dec & lettering on cover & spine, top edge green. Green & white pict eps. P/O's stamp on top & bottom edges, & signature & stamp inside front cover & on ffep, o/w book is clean & unmarked throughout. Frontispiece & 3 internal b&w illustrations by Ferdinand E. Warren. 218pp. Square, straight, tight & clean except as noted, overall VG or better cond. We have most of the Nancy Drew, & many of the Dana Girls titles w/ & w/out dj's, in stock & we'd be happy to discount for multiple purchase & to combine postage. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions.
Seller: Rivertown Fine Books, McGregor, IA, U.S.A.
Price: US$49.00 + shipping
Description: HBDJ, 1936, EARLY edition, Pretext Lists Thru Nancy Clue of Velvet Mask & Thru Secret of Jade Ring Dana Girls, Blue Tweed Cloth with silhouette Nancy with Spyglass on Front, VG/VG-, AS-IS, BACK DJ Lists Dana girls Thru Ghost in Gallery has Tape Residue & Tiny Chips Tear Edges with FOX, 216 PGS, NO ADS in Back, Interior nice tight clean light wear FOX, DJ spine Fox light Wear, White Spine DJ, Blue & White Endpapers of Nancy Peering around Building at a Man with Shovel, There were only 4 printings of this title with the internal illustrations, Front Inner Flap DJ lists Thru Scarlet Slipper Mystery. Back Inner Flap DJ lists Judy Bolton Thru Trail of Green Doll,
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover - Early printing. A series featuring sisters Jean and Louise Dana, who attend Starhurst Academy, written under the same Stratemeyer house pseudonym as that used for the Nancy Drew series (this is the first one in this series written by Mildred Wirt Benson) Bound in the original thicker format in mauve cloth with black lettering and silhouette and chain design on front cover, dark green and white illustrated endpapers, green topstain. Glossy frontispiece. 218 pp. Near fine condition (slight spine slant, but binding is tight and sturdy, book is overall quite attractive.)
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$79.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1936. Copyright 1936, this copy an early printing ca. 1937. Lists to self inside book and to Haunted Bridge on the front inner dustjacket flap; Dana Girls Circle of Footprints on rear flap; Judy Bolton Unfinished House on rear panel. Blue hardcover printed in orange with silhouette of Drew with spyglass on front cover, orange spyglass endpapers, top edge tinted orange-red, black and white frontis plate, pictorial dustjacket with white spine lettered in black. The book has very light edge rubbing, some transparent spotting and white residue on the rear cover from past sticking of the inside of the dustjacket, good hinges, sound text block, faint stain to outer edge of text block, name neatly written at top of front pastedown, pages very clean and free from names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped (5050 at top, 110-150 at bottom) and has some very, minor chipping to the corners and spine ends, a few very small closed tears to the edges, fairly faint old dampstain to the rear panel, front panel colors bright and clear, less than one percent of paper loss overall. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Seller: Resource Books, LLC, East Granby, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pub by Grosset & Dunlap, #5 in series, 1936. Lists to Circle of Footprints on front flap and to self on copyright page. Lists to Nancy Drew, Mystery of the Ivory Charm on rear flap. NOT exLib. VG cond. hardcover w/ VG unclipped dustjacket now in archival grade Brodart. Mauve cloth over bds w/ black dec & lettering on cover & spine, top edge publisher's green. Green & white reading letter eps. Illustrated in b&w by Ferdinand E. Warren. Lght chipping & wear to dj, still95+% intact & displays very well. 218pp. Square, straight, tight, clean & unmarked except as noted, overall VG/VG cond. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions.
Seller: Rivertown Fine Books, McGregor, IA, U.S.A.
Price: US$139.00 + shipping
Description: Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. HBNODJ, 1936, 1st edition, Later printing, THICK Blue Cloth with silhouette Nancy in Orange with Spyglass endpapers, lettered in Orange, orange & white Endpapers, Pre-Text Lists Thru This Title with little xs beside titles, VG/G-, AS-IS, NODJ, Cloth Cover has Rub, Wear, Scuff & some sun & tears along Spine, Cover tiny chips to corners, ,Basically Tight & Clean Interior,few Small stained pgs,216 pgs, Ads in Back starting with listing Nancy Drews Thru Larkspur Lane, Then Judy Bolton thru mysterious cat, Melody Lane Stories 5 titles thru Moaning Cliff, Dana girls 5 Titles thru Secret Hermitage,
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$170.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pub by Grosset & Dunlap, 1936, NAP. Lists through itself on inside front flap, on verso of title page, & through Larkspur Lane in rear. NOT exLib. VG+ or better cond. hardcover w/ VG or better unclipped pict dustjacket now in archival grade Brodart. Blue cloth over bds w/ orange silhouette Nancy w/ spyglass & heels on front cover, & orange lettering on cover & spine. Top edge publisher's orange. Orange & white silhouette eps. Internally illustrated in b&w by Russell Tandy, incl glossy Frontis & 3 internals. Pub advts in rear list 9 Judy Boltons through Half Cat, 5 Melody Lanes through Moaning Cliff, and 5 Dana Girls through Secret At the Hermitage. Rear dj flap lists 5 Dana Girls through Hermitage, & rear of dj lists 9 Judy Boltons through Half Cat. Bright & colorful dustjacket w/ white spine. Approx 1/2" or less loss to head of spine of dj, o/w only light chipping to wear points, & still 98% or more intact. Displays very well. 216pp + 4pp. Square, straight, tight, clean & unmarked, overall VG+/VG cond. We are fortunate to have quite a few of these early Nancy Drews, incl dj's, & we'd be happy to discount for multiple purchase and to combine postage. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions.
Seller: Rivertown Fine Books, McGregor, IA, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. v, [1], 218 pp. Glossy frontisp., 3 internals. Lavender-coloured cloth, black lettering on front cover & spine, illust. Green Letter Reading endpapers, w/ d.j. cover art in green, lavender & black (slight chipping head & foot of spine, minor wear to couple corners, fore-edges), still VG/VG copy. First edition, 2nd printing of No. 5 in the Dana Girls Mystery Series, listing to self on verso of title, The Circle of Footprints on front flap, and Nancy Drew, Mystery of Ivory Charm on rear flap.
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Carolyn Keene. Nancy's Mysterious Letter. Grosset & Dunlap, 1936.
Price: US$185.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue hardcover with orange lettering and orange silhouette(1936B-17 acc. to Farah). Dust jacket is worn along the edges and has tears which have been taped. Back spine is a little faded but it s otherwise in nice condition with intact binding. It was a Christmas gift and there is a note to the recipient on the front endpaper. Endpapers have white background with orange silhouettes. Copyright page lists 8 ND mysteries with Nancy s Mysterious Letter as the last one. Two lists are at the end of the book: 10 ND mysteries (Larkspur Lane is listed last) and 5 Melody Lane. The dust jacket lists 13 ND mysteries with Mystery of the Ivory Charm as the last one on the front flap and 5 Dana Girls with The Secret at the Hermitage as the last one on the back flap. The back cover lists 9 Judy Bolton mysteries with The Mysterious Half Cat as the last one.
Seller: EJCJ Books, CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.
Carolyn Keene. The Secret at Shadow Ranch. Grosset & Dunlap, 1936.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue hardcover with orange lettering and orange silhouette (1936A-16 acc. to Farah). There is a dust jacket for this one although the front inside flap is missing. Back spine is a little faded but otherwise in nice condition with intact binding. Endpapers have white background with orange silhouettes. Copyright page lists 8 ND mysteries with Nancys Mysterious Letter as the last one. Only one list at end of book: 10 ND mysteries (Larkspur Lane is listed last). The dust jacket is missing the front flap. Back inside flap lists 5 Dana Girls with The Secret at the Hermitage as the last one. The back cover lists 9 Judy Bolton mysteries with The Mysterious Half Cat as the last one. Dust jacket is worn along the edges and has tears which have been taped.
Seller: EJCJ Books, CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.
Keene Carolyn. The Secret at the Hermitage. Grosset & Dunlap,, London, 1936.
Price: US$208.77 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Lavender dust jacket issue 1936 making it the First true impression of the Number 5 in the. Dana girls mystery. Book condition: Very good. Pink boards with black titles. Green and cream pictorial end papers of two girls reading. One on her knees. Book does have a small pen name to half title page. Top fore edge is tipped green and does have one small blemish on it. Corners are very lightly compressed. Top of spine has tiny amount of fading. Top and bottom board edges have string tie marks. Book stands nice and square. Couple of small blemishes on front fore edge. Dust Jacket condition: Good. Not price clipped at 50c. A little fading to color on spine. Paper repairs to closed tears and minor chipping at the head and foot of the back strip. First title to be written by Mildred A. Wirt Benson under the pseudonym of Carolyn Keene taking over from Leslie McFarlane is known best for authoring the early Hardy Boys books under the pseudonym of Franklin W. Dixon.
Seller: The Secret Bookshop, Tararua, New Zealand
Carolyn Keene. The Secret of Red Gate Farm. Grosset & Dunlap, 1936.
Price: US$210.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue hardcover with orange lettering and orange silhouette (1936A-15 acc. to Farh). There is a dust jacket. Back spine is a little faded and there is a little moisture damage along the edges of the first three pages but it s otherwise in nice condition with intact binding. Endpapers have white background with orange silhouettes. Copyright page lists 8 ND mysteries with Nancy s Mysterious Letter as the last one. Several lists are at the end of the book: 10 ND mysteries (Larkspur Lane is listed last), 6 Dana Girls, 5 Melody Lane, 9 Judy Bolton, 7 by Jane Abbott and 17 Patty & 6 Marjorie books by Carolyn Wells. The dust jacket lists 12 ND mysteries with Message in the Hollow Oak as the last one on the front flap and 5 Dana Girls with The Secret at the Hermitage as the last one on the back flap. The back cover lists 9 Judy Bolton mysteries with The Mysterious Half Cat as the last one. Dust jacket is worn along the edges and has tears which have been taped.
Seller: EJCJ Books, CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$299.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: NANCY DREW MYSTERY STORIES #13 - THE MYSTERY OF THE IVORY CHARM by CAROLYN KEENE (pen name of Mildred Wirt Benson), published by Grosset & Dunlap, copyright 1936 (original 25 chapters), 1936B-1 first printing dust jacket/first printing book per Farah (Guides for $600) (format 3), orange "silhouette" (Nancy holding a magnifying glass) illustrated endpapers, light blue boards with orange lettering to spine & front cover, "thick" book with glossy (not plain) frontispiece illustration, 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), glossy frontispiece with 3 glossy internal illustrations (only found on the first 4 printings of this book), 50c price on DJ front flap. Note - this book never had revised "wraparound" artwork in a dust jacket so only this artwork with the white spine exists in dust jacket format. Dust Jacket Front Flap: Ivory Charm Dust Jacket Rear Flap: Dana Girls - Secret Hermitage (1st printing issue point) Dust Jacket Back Cover: Judy Bolton - Unfinished House Book rear lists: Larkspur Lane, Judy Bolton, Melody Lane (1st printing issue point), Dana Girls Book has no creased page corners, red top stain has no drop spots or fading, slight dust soiling to outer page edges (no age darkening/foxing), endpapers are clean and free from any tape residue, 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, corners or spine tips, no color wear or surface color tears to boards, no bumped board corners, no white foxing to boards. Dust Jacket has top 1/3rd of rear panel missing (colored stat of missing section has been laid in loose behind the dust jacket inside the DJ protector) otherwise no chipping, tearing or creasing, barest hint of wear to spine tips, almost no wear to front flap crease (just a bit at flap crease corners), hint of edge wear, no soiling or staining, hint of dust rubbing to white rear panel, no dust soiling or age darkening to white spine, no color rubbing to panels, no spine sun darkening (common defect with the white spine books). Overall a N-FINE book in GD (but presents N-FINE from spine & front panel) condition DJ (not price clipped) of a Nancy Drew hardcover first printing with its original 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.