The Tower Treasure
by Franklin W. Dixon
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/good
- Seller
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Salem, Oregon, United States
Item Price
$29.99$23.99
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good/good. A. O. Scott. Vintage edition. Very good book in good dust jacket. Yellow spine dust jacket has minor edge wear with a chip at the spine top; a couple of damp stains; now in new removable protective cover. Tan tweed boards with brown image and printing to front and spine. Orange pictorial end papers by J. Clemens Gretta. Grosset and Dunlap hard cover with dust jacket, 1927 edition but probably 1954 printing, Hardy Boys #1, 214 pages, cover art by A.O. Scott. 12mo (5.25"" x 7.5"") The Tower Treasure (Hardy Boys #1) by Leslie McFarlane, writing as Franklin W. Dixon. Hardy Boys titles on the front flap go to 34: The Hooded Hawk Mystery, published in 1954. Tom Swift Jr titles on the rear flap go to 4: Tom Swift & His Giant Robot, published in 1954. This is the original 25 chapter text: The Hardy Boys solve the theft of Hurd Applegate's treasure (not stamps!) by Red Jackley. In 1959 the story was altered
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
- Bujoldfan (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 04012207HardyBoys01gr
- Title
- The Tower Treasure
- Author
- Franklin W. Dixon
- Illustrator
- A. O. Scott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1955
- Pages
- 214
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- mystery
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classic Childrens books; Mysteries;
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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....
- 12mo
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...