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The Message in the Hollow Oak (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #12)
by Carolyn Keene
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Near Fine
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1955 Grosset & Dunlap, New York. c1935 (1955C-46 by Farah). Hardcover. 46th printing of the 1935 original. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a small address label on the front pastedown. Book Condition: Very Good +; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; slight suntoning to board top edges. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($1.00); slight wear to head, tail, and tips. Blue tweed boards and spine with blue lettering on the spine and front board; Nancy outline in blue on front board. Blue and white pictorial digger endpapers. Tinted textblock top. 218 pp 12mo. Nancy wins a contest and ends up winning land in Canada. Nancy and her chums travel to Canada and along the way discover there may be hidden gold on the property. Nancy's mystery helps reunite lost love as well. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016143
- Title
- The Message in the Hollow Oak (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #12)
- Author
- Carolyn Keene
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1955
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Nancy Drew, Carolyn Keene, Message in the Hollow Oak, women sleuths, female detectives, adolescent fiction, girls fiction, girls role model,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adolescent/Childrens Books;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
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About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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...
- 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....
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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