FLICKERING TORCH MYSTERY: Hardy Boys Mystery Stories #22 (Twenty-Two)
by Dixon, Franklin W
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap (1943) 212+pp. Original brown cloth covers, lightly soiled and rubbed. Orange and white endpapers by Gretta. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down, and name on front endpaper. Top corner torn off of half-title page. Leaves age toned. Hardy Boys ad page in rear lists to "The Mystery of the Flying Express." Illust. w/ a b/w frontispiece drawing.. Probable First Printing. Hard Cover. Good+/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Paul Laune. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22392CH
- Title
- FLICKERING TORCH MYSTERY: Hardy Boys Mystery Stories #22 (Twenty-Two)
- Author
- Dixon, Franklin W
- Illustrator
- Paul Laune
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Probable First Printing
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Size
- 12mo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- CHILDRENS BOOKS JUVENILE CHILDREN STORIES FICTIONAL CHARACTERS FICTITIOUS CHARACTER HARDY FRANK HARDY JOE HARDY BOYS MYSTERY STORIES SERIES BOOKS ADVENTURE ILLUSTRATED LAUNE PAUL AUTHORS DIXON FRANKLIN W. STRATEMEYER EDWARD L. 1862 1930 DETECTIVE STORIES
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About the Seller
Shoemaker Booksellers
Biblio member since 2007
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
About Shoemaker Booksellers
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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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