HUNTING FOR HIDDEN GOLD: Hardy Boys Mystery Stories #5 (Five)
by Dixon, Franklin W
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good-
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap [1954] 214 pp. Original brown tweed covers w/ faint sunning to edges. Orange and white endpapers by Gretta. Yellow spine DJ lightly soiled and rubbed w/ modest chipping to corners and spine ends. Price clipped. DJ front flap lists to "The Yellow Feather Mystery." The rear flap of DJ advertises "The Ken Holt Mystery Stories." The rear panel of DJ advertises "Adventure Stories for Boys by Zane Grey." Illust. w/ a b/w frontispiece drawing. Contents very nice.. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good-. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Synopsis
Hunting For Hidden Gold is Volume 5 in the original The Hardy Boys novel series published by Grosset & Dunlap. The book ranks 111th on Publishers Weekly's All-Time Bestselling Children's Book List for the United States, with 1,179,533 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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- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22395CH
- Title
- HUNTING FOR HIDDEN GOLD: Hardy Boys Mystery Stories #5 (Five)
- Author
- Dixon, Franklin W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Keywords
- CHILDRENS BOOKS JUVENILE CHILDREN STORIES FICTIONAL CHARACTERS FICTITIOUS CHARACTER HARDY FRANK HARDY JOE HARDY BOYS MYSTERY STORIES SERIES BOOKS ADVENTURE ILLUSTRATED AUTHORS DIXON FRANKLIN W. STRATEMEYER EDWARD L. 1862 1930 DETECTIVE STORIES FICTION GEN
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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About the Seller
Shoemaker Booksellers
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
About Shoemaker Booksellers
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
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