While The Clock Ticked (Hardy Boys, Book 11)

Extended Description and Notes

Franklin W. Dixon: While The Clock Ticked (1932, Grosset & Dunlap Hardy Boys), 1948 Printing Thus. BROWN BOARDS. QUITE RARE IN THE ORIGINAL RED DUST JACKET. HARDY BOYS #11. GROSSET & DUNLAP. USED. NOT AN EXLIB ITEM. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ GOOD- ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. Frontispiece by illustrator GRETTA. DESCRIPTION: The book is in an original red kidnap jacket. That jacket is original, has an orange spine. Loss to top and bottom of spine. with a triangular divot out of the letter H in the word the. The front panel of the dust jacket is unclipped and has a 7575 priced front flap. Back flap a blurb for "Touchdown Pass", dating this copy to 1948. Back panel of the dust jacket states ADVENTURE STORIES FOR BOYS BY ZANE GREY . BOOK: Brown boards with two boys in 30's period clothing at center. One wears a hat and scarf. Two sets of orange and white endpapers that show the boy with the hat up a tree with binoculars gazing at a cabin on a bluff across the way. Pages and endpapers are clean and bright. Black topstain. Copyright 1932 Grosset & Dunlap. No other printings mentioned on copyright page. Plot Summary: " A banker named Raymond Dalrymple of Lakeside gets death threats and shows up at the Hardy house, seeking Fenton Hardy's assistance. Frank and Joe offer to help and he reluctantly agrees. Soon after that, during a hike with their friends, the hardy boys are nearly run over by a car. They then investigate Purdy place. A clean, solid used copy. Will ship from Oregon

Bookseller

Mary Riversong Books (US)

Bookseller's Inventory #

586DixonClock

Title

While The Clock Ticked (Hardy Boys, Book 11)

Author

Franklin W. Dixon

Illustrator

Gretta

Format/Binding

Hardcover

Book Condition

Used - Very Good

Jacket Condition

Good-

Quantity Available

1

Edition

Reprint Edition

Publisher

Grosset & Dunlap

Place of Publication

New York

Date Published

1948

Pages

213

Size

5 1/4 X 7 5/8

Weight

0.00

Keywords

Franklin W. Dixon, Hardy Boys, Boys' books, Adventure, Young Adult, Mystery, Series, Crime, Frank Varty, AU Scott, Illustrated,

Bookseller catalogs

For Sale; Children's Books; Mystery; Americana; Detective Fiction; Young Adult Literature; 20th Century Literature; Children's Illustrated Books;

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