The Message in the Hollow Oak
by Keene, Carolyn
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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North Tonawanda, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1939. Early Printing. Hardcover. Blue cloth with lettering and Nancy's silhouette stamped in orange. Trace edgewear and barely bumped spine ends. Protected in a new clear acetate wrapper. Minor soil to text block. Binding sound, text clean. Interior lightly toned. Previous owner name/address to ffep, and gift inscription dated 1941 to second blank. No stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. Last Nancy Drew title listed at rear is "The Haunted Bridge" [1939]; last Beverly Gray title listed at rear is "Beverly Gray's Return" [1939]. ; Nancy Drew Mystery Stories; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 218 pages .
Synopsis
Nancy Drew determines if an ivory elephant charm really protects its wearer from harm when she investigates the involvement of a member of the Bengleton Wild-Animal Show in a mysterious scheme.
Reviews
On Apr 24 2007, Lilmama said:
i really enjoyed reading all of the nancy drew books and i would most definately recommend this book to other readers
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Editions Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9550
- Title
- The Message in the Hollow Oak
- Author
- Keene, Carolyn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Early Printing
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Date Published
- 1939
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Literature;
Terms of Sale
Old Editions Inc.
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About the Seller
Old Editions Inc.
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North Tonawanda, New York
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- 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"...
- FFEP
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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....
- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....