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The Hardy Boys: The Shore Road Mystery
by DIXON, FRANKLIN W
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
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Naas, Kildare, Ireland
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About This Item
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England: Harold Hill & SONS, 1953. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK edition, First Printing octavo, frontis. pp. 223. Illustrated endpages. Original yellow boards with blue lettering to front board and spine, blue decoration of two figures to front board, top page edges blue. Pages clean and tightly bound, foxing to the top of the text block and the fore edge. The original jacket is fair, with loss to the top and bottom of the spine, rubbing to the extremities, archival tape reinforcement to rear of jacket which is not price clipped (6/- net) Last title listed on front end flap, The Secret of Skull Mountain, rear flap has an ad for Enid Blyton 'Now for a story' and "Little Women"..
Synopsis
Caught in their motorboat the 'Sleuth', by a sudden storm at sea, Frank and Joe Hardy are helpless when the engine conks out. Drifting farther from shore amid the tumultuous waves, the boys are relieved to see the lights of a yacht. But their SOS is ignored.The shrill sound of a siren fills the night air. Moments later, a helicopter drops an object alongside the 'Sleuth'. To the young detective's astonishment it proves to be a wallet containing two thousand dollars. The next day their close pal Chet Morton rushes to the Hardys' home to report that the Morton farm truck carrying a shipment of high-powered rifles belonging to his uncle, a big-game hunter, has been stolen. These two apparently unconnected events are clues in a tangle of mystery which turns out to be one of the detective brothers' most exciting adventures.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Kelleher Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013743
- Title
- The Hardy Boys: The Shore Road Mystery
- Author
- DIXON, FRANKLIN W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Harold Hill & SONS
- Place of Publication
- Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- The Hardy Boys: The Shore Road Mystery,DIXON, FRANKLIN W., first edition
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- Jacket
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