THE LIGHT OF THE STUDY LAMP: The Dana Girls Mystery Series #1. by Keene, Carolyn - (ca 1960, c. 1934.)

Grosset & Dunlap, 1934. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Grosset & Dunlap, 1934. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Hard Cover. Fair+. Grosset & Dunlap, #9201, The Dana Girls Mystery, hardback, no dust jacket/pictorial cover

Grosset & Dunlap. Good+ with no dust jacket; Previous owners name written inside.. 1934. Hardcover. The Dana Girls Mystery Stories; Vol. 1; 8vo; 215 pages .

Grosset & Dunlap Later printing in Very Good Minus condition lacking a Dust Jacket. Illustrated endpages. green tweed boards with dark green lettering.. Hard Cover. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Hardcover.

Grosset & Dunlap, 1934. Interior is excellent. very good cover

Grosset & Dunlap 9201 Later printing in Very Good Plus condition with pictorial boards and no Dust Jacket as issued. Illustrated endpages.. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Issued Without Jacket. Hardcover.

Grosset & Dunlap 9201 Later printing in Very Good condition with pictorial boards and no Dust Jacket as issued. Illustrated endpages.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Issued Without Jacket. Hardcover.

Sampson Low, 1111. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 192 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth with red lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has moderate surface wear, with chips, tears and creasing to edges, corners and spine ends. Very large tear to rear panel.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1934. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 7x5x1. Reprint (prelim lists through The Haunted Lagoon). Front jacket flap missing, chips and tears to jacket. Ink name on front paste-down endpaper. 1934 Hard Cover. 215 pp. Original green tweed cover, illustrated endpapers. The Dana Girls was a series of young adult mystery novels produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate. The title heroines, Jean and Louise Dana, are teenage sisters and amateur detectives who solve mysteries while at boarding school. The series was created in 1934 in an attempt to capitalize on the popularity of both the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories and the Hardy Boys series, but was less successful than either. The series was written by a number of ghostwriters and, despite going out-of-print twice, lasted from 1934 to 1979; the books have also been translated into a number of other languages. While subject to less critical attention than either Nancy Drew or the Hardy Boys, a number of critics have written… Read More