Pre Series List Thru Clue Velvet Mask ,VG/VG. HBDJ, Stated First British Printing, 1954. I have a number of other hardcover Nancy Drew books up for sale. Overall a N-FINE book in N-FINE condition DJ (not price clipped) of a Nancy Drew hardcover first printing with its original first print dust jacket. Dust Jacket has no chipping, tearing or creasing, barest hint of wear to spine tips, barest hint of wear to front flap crease, no edge wear, no soiling or staining, barest 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).

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, no spots or other staining to boards, no color wear or surface color tears to boards, no bumped board corners. 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. 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.

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