While boating on Barmet Bay, the Hardy boys spot a periscope from a submarine and then nearly crash into a rented speedboat driven by a Mexican man named Pancho Cardillo. Mr. Cardillo later returns to the rental location and steals the speedboat, leading the boys on a search for the stolen boat. Cardillo then ditches the boat after his cronies knock out Frank and Joe. While investigating Mr. Cardillo, the boys find an Indian ring with a strange crest on it and Fenton Hardy receives a threatening letter telling him to "beware of the mark on the door!" The Hardy boys, their father, and their friend Chet Morton fly to Mexico where they find a band of Indians and a strange oil smuggling operation using submarines. Their deductions lead them to a small Mexican town where they learn that local people are mysteriously disappearing and the strange crest appears on the doors of people who have disappeared. The Hardys find a local youth by the name of Tico who is a great navigator and helps the Hardy boys find the culprit's hideout where they learn the real man behind the scheme is Cardillo, who is called "Pavura", which means terror in Spanish, by the Indians. In the end, the Hardy boys and their friend Chet manage to stop the smugglers from getting away and solve the mystery of the disappearing Indians, all while solving the oil smuggling case that their father was working on. An excellent copy with slight browning to pages.
First Edition/First Printing-Illustrated by Norman Rockwell, Heritage Press, NY. 1936. Book Fine++. Red/brown cloth binding with gold lettering on cover and spine. Gold picture of Tom Sayer on front. Color and black and white illustrations throughout the book. Not an ex-library book. this is from a personal collection and the pages are white and crisp. There are no tears, smudges, marks, highlights, rubbing, or defect of any kind. The spine is As New and book is as never read!! This is a beautiful book!!
First Edition/First Printing-Illustrated by Norman Rockwell, Heritage Press, NY. 1936. Book Fine++. Red/brown cloth binding with gold lettering on cover and spine. Gold picture of Tom Sayer on front. Color and black and white illustrations throughout the book. Not an ex-library book. this is from a personal collection and the pages are white and crisp. There are no tears, smudges, marks, highlights, rubbing, or defect of any kind. The spine is As New and book is as never read!! This is a beautiful book!!
First Edition/First Printing-Illustrated by Norman Rockwell, Heritage Press, NY. 1936. Book Fine++. Green cloth binding with gold lettering on cover and spine. Gold picture of Tom Sayer on front. Color and black and white illustrations throughout the book. Not an ex-library book. this is from a personal collection and the pages are white and crisp. There are no tears, smudges, marks, highlights, rubbing, or defect of any kind. The spine is As New and book is as never read!! There is very mild lightening of the color on the outside. This is a beautiful book!!
First Edition/First Printing-Illustrated by Norman Rockwell, Heritage Press, NY. 1936. Book Fine++. Green cloth binding with gold lettering on cover and spine. Gold picture of Tom Sayer on front. Color and black and white illustrations throughout the book. Not an ex-library book. this is from a personal collection and the pages are white and crisp. There are no tears, smudges, marks, highlights, rubbing, or defect of any kind. The spine is As New and book is as never read!! There is very mild lightening of the color on the outside. This is a beautiful book!!
Scribner Publishing, Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, New York 10020, 1999. Hardcover. Condition: AS NEW Book Design: Erich Hobbing; Jacket Design: John Fontana; Jacket Illustration: Phil Heffernan; Author's Photo by Tabita King (illustrator). First Edition/First Printing. Handsomely Bound in ¼ BLACK Faux Cloth Spine, Lettered in BRIGHT RED FOIL, over ¾ MEDIUM BLUE, Paper Covered Boards. WHITE End Papers and YELLOW Headband. FIRST PRINTING w/full Number Line 1 - 10 (1 3 5 7 8 10 8 6 4 2). The spine is Tight & Crisp, Boards are Flat & True; the Corners are Square w/o Bumps. No Wear Marks on Edges. Pages are Clear, Clean, Unmarked and Bright White. No Marks. No Underlining. No Wrinkles or Creases. Not a REMAINDER. Not EX-LIB. Not BCE. No Bookplate, Stickers or Notes.
Grosset & Dunlap, 1961. Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. First Edition. With first printing points of issue. Bound in a blue tweed cloth with black lettering and image on the cover. Not an ex-library book. Crisp, clean, white pages with a solid and unbroken spine. Lists to Cherry Ames Rural nurse (1961) and itself on inside indicating a first edition. Excellent collector's copy as it appears unread!!
Lutterworth Press, 1965. Condition: Very Good++. 1965. First Edition. 371 pages. Pink pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Clean pages with firm binding. Pages are crisp and clean. Boards are bright. A very special edition for any collector!!
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition, First Printing. The Bill Hodges Trilogy (Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, and End of Watch). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (stated, complete number line to 1) New York, Scribner, 2014. NEW, Unread. Dust Jacket is as new in Brodart cover, no wear, no tears, not price clipped. Boards AsNew, no wear, no bumps. Text Clean, no marks. The pages are perfectly white and it has not been read. An excellent collector's edition.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. As New. A fine first edition, first printing with the complete number line in new condition. The dust jacket is a scarcer first issue cover, with the cover being red lettering of author's name (gold lettering is more common on the market). Green paper boards with black embossed quarter cloth on spine. Cover has a facsimile of King's signature embossed. Title stamped in gold foil on spine. Green endpapers. Pages are clean, bright, and white. Binding is tight. No defects to this book. An absolutely excellent book for any collector!
New York, 2015. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Number line starting with a (1). Jacket and book in as new condition. No markings, tears, scuffing, or defects in any way to the book, Bright, crisp, white pages, Book unread. Obsessed fan Bellamy kills author and robs safe of money and notebooks detailing an unpublished novel. Killer hides the loot and spends decades in prison for another crime. Son of a Mr. Mercedes victim finds the stash and must protect himself and family from recently released Bellamy. Number line starting with a (1). Fine/Fine.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 2009. Hardback. Fine. First US Edition. First Print. This is the third book in the Millennium Trilogy. The book is as new. There are no marks, tears, highlights, or defects in this book. Never read and in perfect condition, it is excellent for a collector!
Grosset & Dunlap, 1948. Hardcover. Condition: As New, Grosset & Dunlap, 1948. Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Frontispiece. Green and while illustrated control tower endpapers. The front flap of dust jacket lists to#4 in this series, back cover #10. 218 pp. and this book appears UNREAD! This is an early edition noted by the light blue cover and the fact that the book only lists to The Secret of Magnolia Manor on the back cover (the next book). Binding is tight and pages are crisp and clean. No marks or writing in or out of the book.
New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1947, First Edition, First Printing. Excellent condition and book is as new. No scuffing or bumping to the book. Its pages are white and crisp. 179 pp, blue tweed paper covered boards w/dark blue lettering on spine & front, dark blue line drawing of Vicki Barr on the front cover, brightly colored airport illustrated endpapers, line drawn frontispiece. This is book #2 in the Vicki Barr Air Stewardess Series. Society Phantom V570-2 - format #2, Axe Girls' Series - 145 format II. Helen Wells is also the author of the Cherry Ames series.
Grosset & Dunlap, NT 1953. Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Early Printing. Like new in blue "tweed" boards, Vicki Barr's portrait on the front panel. Airport endpapers and frontis illustration. A terrific copy in a bright dust jacket. Clean, unmarked, white pages with no tears or inscriptions. A wonderful collectors edition. Solid spine with no scuffing. The blue tweed cover is bright and unscuffed.
Grosset & Dunlap, NY, 1954. Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hardback, no edition stated, in good, almost very good condition. 214 pages are clean and tight. Decorative endpapers depicting airport with a control tower, planes and runways. Blue linen-like boards with picture of a stewardess on the front. Crisp book with clean, unmarked pages. No tears or rips. The book is as new!
Grosset & Dunlap, NY 1956, First Editon, First Printing. Very Fine++condition. Book in As New condition The red cloth boards are still perfectly intact and clean with no scuffing. The pages are crisp and clean with no markings or tears. The dust jacket is completely intact and bright with no defects minus a small tear at the top of the spine. There is a 20cent mark on the cover from an early previous owner. This is an exquisite copy for any collectors' library! Rare to find in an immaculate condition such as this.
Grosset & Dunlap, NY 1947, First Editon, First Printing. Very Fine++condition. Book in As New condition The red boards are still perfectly intact and clean with no scuffing. The pages are crisp and clean with no markings or tears. This is an exquisite copy for any collectors' library! Rare to find in an immaculate condition such as this.
Grosset & Dunlap, NY 1946, First Editon, First Printing. Very Fine++condition. Book in As New condition The pictorial cover is still perfectly intact and clean with no scuffing. The pages are crisp and clean with no markings or tears. This is an exquisite copy for any collectors' library! Rare to find in an immaculate condition such as this.
Grosset & Dunlap, NY 1947, First Editon, First Printing. Very Fine++condition. Book in As New condition The red cloth boards are still perfectly intact and clean with no scuffing. The pages are crisp and clean with no markings or tears. This is an exquisite copy for any collectors' library! Rare to find in an immaculate condition such as this.
