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The Sign of the Twisted Candles (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #9)
by Carolyn Keene
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +/Near Fine
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1956 Grosset & Dunlap, New York. c1933 (1956A-57 by Farah). Hardcover. Edition/Printing not stated. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O address label on the front pastedown. Book Condition: Very Good +; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($1.00); light wear to head, tail, and tips. Blue tweed boards and spine with dark blue lettering on the spine and front board; Nancy outline on front board. Tinted textblock top. Blue and white pictorial digger endpapers. 217 pp 8vo. Another exciting mystery begins for Nancy when her friends Bess and George visit The Sign of the Twisted Candles Inn and meet 100 year old Asa Sidney. The strange inn keepers seem to have some sort of hold over Asa and their foster daughter. When Asa dies, Nancy becomes embroiled in the middle of a family feud involving Bess and George which nearly costs her their friendship. In the end Nancy solves a baffling mystery involving the parentage of the inn keeper's foster daughter and foils the inn keeper's sinister plans. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016138
- Title
- The Sign of the Twisted Candles (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #9)
- Author
- Carolyn Keene
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1956
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Nancy Drew, Twisted Candles, adolescent fiction, mystery fiction, female detective fiction, Asa Sidney, Twisted Candles Inn
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adolescent/Childrens Books;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Price Clipped
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- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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