THE ADVENTURE BOYS AND THE VALLEY OF DIAMONDS, #1 in Adventure Boys / Jewel Series.
by Thompson, Ames (pseudonym of Josephine Chase)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good only in beige cloth with navy lettering and illustration on front cover - pencilled gift inscription dated Christmas 1927,
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Cupples & Leon Company,, (1927). Hardcover first edition -. Good only in beige cloth with navy lettering and illustration on front cover - pencilled gift inscription dated Christmas 1927, some soiling to the covers, front hinge cracking, foxing in the margins of some pages and other wear. First edition. The first book in this boys adventure series, also known as The Jewel Series, since each adventure has the boys involved in finding different gemstones. "Malcolm Edwards and his son Ralph are adventurers with ample means for following up their interest in jewel clues. In this book they form a party of five, including Jimmy Stone and Bret Hartson, boys of Ralph's age, and a shrewd level-headed sailor named Stanley Greene, They find a valley of diamonds in the heart of Africa." Probably a first edition - lists only the first 3 titles in the beginning of the book all issued in1927 as a "starter set" as was common with juvenile series at the time. Glossy frontispiece. 211 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 72723
- Title
- THE ADVENTURE BOYS AND THE VALLEY OF DIAMONDS, #1 in Adventure Boys / Jewel Series.
- Author
- Thompson, Ames (pseudonym of Josephine Chase)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Good only in beige cloth with navy lettering and illustration on front cover - pencilled gift inscription dated Christmas 1927,
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cupples & Leon Company,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1927)
- Keywords
- boys series, first in series,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Juvenile series;
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