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12:00 PM PT - Dec 11th, 2008

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Hidden Staircase Nancy Drew 2, 29th printing w/dj

Title: The Hidden Staircase.
Author: Keene, Carolyn
Description: 206, [5] ad pp. Glossy frontispiece by Russell H. Tandy. 7¼x4¾, blue cloth with orange silhouette and lettering, color pictorial jacket. 29th Printing."According to contemporary advertising, either this volume or one near it came with a 6.4 cm high wrapper on the outside of the dust jacket that stated 'This is the Book from which the Warner Bros. photoplay-Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase was made.' However, no copies of the wrapper are known to have survived." -Farah p.98. Printing points: jacket rear flap lists 6 titles for Headline Books for Girls; ads at rear of volume are printed in a specific order. Farah p.98 (12th).
Heading: zzc(Nancy Drew)Place Published: New York
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Date Published: [1930] (but 1938)

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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

Small cracks to jacket, else near fine; light edge wear to volume; slight offsetting to rear endpapers; else near fine.

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