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Children's, Illustrated & Miniature Books
1:00 PM PT - Dec 11th, 2008

 

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Lot 3362 save

Nancy Drew #30 Velvet Mask, 1st ed, 1st printing

Title: The Clue of the Velvet Mask.
Author: Keene, Carolyn
Description: 211 pp. Frontispiece. 7¼x4¾, blue cloth-like boards with dark blue silhouette and lettering, blue silhouette endpapers, color pictorial jacket. First Edition, First Printing."A small number of copies were produced with blue silhouette endpapers...These volumes are scarce." -Farah p.409. The first printing endpapers are illustrated in dark blue silhouette of Nancy, on the right, looking down through a magnifying glass while three girls, on the left, watch. The second printing has endpapers with a scene of Nancy, on the left, watching as a man is digging behind a tree. Farah p.409 (12th).
Heading: zzc(Nancy Drew)Place Published: New York
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Date Published: [1953]

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This is a two day auction running Thursday 12/11 and Friday 12/12. Invoices will not be available before Monday 12/15.


Condition report

A few short tears and a bit of staining to jacket; slight edge wear to volume; slightly yellowed endpapers; else near fine.

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