The Clue of the Tapping Heels: Nancy Drew Mystery Stories
by Keene, Carolyn
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Dearborn, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Grosset & Dunlap, 1939-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover with DJ, (Dust Jacket A, Format II per AXE) 1939 (Farah 1940B-5). [Format 5] Grosset & Dunlap 214 pages. Very Good, in a VG DJ. Minor shelf/edge wear to original blue cloth boards with orange silhouette of Nancy Drew on front cover and orange titles on spine - corners sharp. Only flaw is light mottling to spine cloth (very common to this cloth). Orange silhouette endpapers and lightly faded orange topstain. Glossy frontispiece. Minor shelf/edge wear and dust soiling to original DJ that still has vibrant colors - DJ now in mylar. Previous owner name at top of FFEP and a label on the inside front cover. 25 chapters. (Farah 1940B-5). [Format 5] 16th title in the series. Dust Jacket A, Format II per AXE. DJ illustration by Russell Tandy. Front DJ flap reads 50/50 at top and 100/150 at bottom. Orange and white silhouette endpapers. This is the 16th book in a series of 56. Per AXE, this is binding variant II with good paper, orange and white endpapers and glossy frontispiece. DJ is Variant A. (Farah 1940B-5). [Format 5]. See my photos to come. Nancy Drew is a fictional character who appears in several mystery book series as a teenage amateur sleuth. The books are ghostwritten by a number of authors and published under the collective pseudonym Carolyn Keene. Created by publisher Edward Stratemeyer as the female counterpart to his Hardy Boys series, the character first appeared in 1930 in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series, which lasted until 2003 and consists of 175 novels. (Farah 1940B-5). [Format 5]. Very handsome thick pre-war hardcover in the original DJ. LOC SSS-12
Synopsis
Nancy Drew tries to find a clue to the strange tapping sounds in the house of a retired actress.
Reviews
On Dec 5 2020, a reader said:
Excellent book! The original Nancy Drew books are so enjoyable to read. This story is one of my favorites. I think newer books are incomparable to the engaging plots and vivid prose of older stories. This is especially true concerning the Nancy Drew mysteries. In this story, Nancy uses wit and wisdom to overcome a formidable antagonist, all while aiding an elderly woman who has fallen on hard times.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eyebrowse Books - MWABA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 220528005
- Title
- The Clue of the Tapping Heels: Nancy Drew Mystery Stories
- Author
- Keene, Carolyn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Date Published
- 1939-01-01
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Eyebrowse Books - MWABA
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Dearborn, Michigan
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Cloth
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- LOC
- Library of Congress
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...