The Tower Treasure
by Dixon, Franklin W
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Newcastle upon Tyne: Harold Hill & Son. Good+ with no dust jacket. (1951). Hardcover. Pink tick marks beside the list of futher titles. Previous owner's name and address. Moderate rubbing and dust-stains to cloth boards. Fading to dye on top page edges. Lacking the dust-jacket; First UK edition. 224 pages. Blue cloth boards with dark blue lettering on spine and front board, silhouette illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 185 x 122mm. Red illustrated endpapers. Top page edges blue. 28 titles listed in "Further Titles In This Series". Copyright page has "FIRST PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN 1951". Series: Hardy Boys Mystery Stories. .
Synopsis
The Tower Treasure is the first volume in the original The Hardy Boys book series published by Grosset & Dunlap. The book ranks 55th on Publishers Weekly's All-Time Bestselling Children's Book List for the United States, with 2,209,774 copies sold as of 2001. This book is one of the "Original 10", generally considered to be the best examples of the Hardy Boys, and Stratemeyer Syndicate, writing.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21354
- Title
- The Tower Treasure
- Author
- Dixon, Franklin W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Harold Hill & Son
- Place of Publication
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Date Published
- (1951)
- Keywords
- Children's literature
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
Glossary
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...