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The Sleuth Shop: Vintage Girls' Series Books

Like Nancy Drew® Books? Check out these neat girls' series books!

UPDATED: December 14, 2011--Check back often, always adding new books!

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Vintage Girls' Series Books For Sale:

Abbreviations FYI: Eps=endpapers, DJ=dust jacket, PC=picture cover, PB=paperback, HC: hardcover, OOP: Out of Print, OT=Original Text, RT=Revised Text, BCE=Book Club Edition

There is only 1 copy of each book shown below, so do not enter a quantity of more than 1 when purchasing! Click on the thumbnail images below for larger pictures.


ITEM: DESCRIPTION: ADD TO CART:
Bobbsey Twins Poster This is a Bobbsey Twins promotional poster from the newly revamped series, which is now out of print and not being produced anymore. These were given out by the publisher, Simon & Schuster at the Nancy Drew/Stratemeyer convention in NYC June 2005. As promo items go, they're hard to find.

SALE! BOBSPOSTER $3.00

Dana Girls - The Secret at the Hermitage by Carolyn Keene, author of Nancy Drew mysteries and a pseudonym for various authors over the years. Copyright is 1936. Dust jacket has some edgewear and mild tiny tears along edges--as shown above. Back of the dj has checkmarks by Nancy Drew titles and also The Clue of the Dancing Puppet written-ink is fading. Front flap lists to Bamboo Bird, back flap lists 32 Judy Bolton, back of the dust jacket lists to Nancy Drew Fire Dragon. Dust jacket is in good shape overall.

Book is the green tweed style. Mild wear/rubbing to extremities. Name inside on left endpaper, binding good, clean. Dog-eared page. Endpapers are green spooky eps. Inside lists to Bamboo Bird and also Nancy Drew Fire Dragon.

DGHERMITAGE $25.00

Dana Girls - The Haunted Lagoon (FYI: There is glare on the dust jacket Mylar protector that shows in the scan--white streaks--this is not on the dust jacket, just scanner glare!)

There isn't a Dana Girls guide out there, however from my own expertise with Nancy Drew I can say with some certainty this is either a first printing or very early printing. The last book to be printed with a dust jacket was Sierra Gold #23. This is book #21.

The Haunted Lagoon by Carolyn Keene, author of Nancy Drew mysteries and a pseudonym for various authors over the years. Copyright is 1959. Dust jacket is protected in a Mylar cover. Has edgewear/chipping/tears as shown above--most at ends of spine. Some cover rubbing. Front flap is synopsis of this book, back flap lists to this title, back of the dust jacket lists to Nancy Drew Golden Pavilion. Dust jacket is in fairly good shape for its age.

Book is the green tweed style. Spine is cocked. Some edgewear/rubbing to extremities. Name inside on blank page, binding good, clean. Endpapers are green spooky eps. Inside lists to this title and also Nancy Drew Golden Pavilion, a book also published in 1959.

DGLAGOON $45.00

Trixie Belden. Red Trailer Mystery. Copyright MCML, MCMLXXVII. Beige paperback. By Julie Campbell.

Very good shape--like almost never read. Pages inside aging. Lists to #19 inside. No barcode on back cover. Very little wear. Overall good shape. Doesn't really show up in scan but has price sticker residue in the upper right corner.

TBPB2 $3.50

The Mystery at Maypenny's. By Kathryn Kenny. Beige paperback. Has some mild edgewear. Mild cover wear. Lists 34 inside, NO bar code on back cover. Pencil price inside. Overall very good.

TBBP31 $7.99

#31 The Mystery at Maypenny's. By Kathryn Kenny. Beige paperback but in YELLOW--different variant. Has some mild edgewear. Mild soil. Lists 34 inside, tiny dog ears, bar code on back cover. Pencil price inside. Overall very good.

TBBP31YEL $13.00

#34 The Mystery of the Missing Millionaire. By Kathryn Kenny. Copyright 1980. Lists 34 Trixies inside. Barcode on back. (SHOWN w/ #35 BUT ONLY #34 available for purchase with this cart button at right!) Has some mild wear, creasing, price marked out on cover. Pencil price inside. Overall good shape.

$15.00 TB34

#36 The Mystery of the Antique Doll. By Kathryn Kenny. Copyright 1984. Lists 39 Trixies inside. Barcode on back. (SHOWN w/ #37 BUT ONLY #36 available for purchase with this cart button at right!) Has quite a bit of wear to edges/spine ends, creasing, some ruffling of some pages, inside cover aging, page is price clipped right inside, penciled in price. Price on front cover marked out.

$45.00 TB36

#37 The Pet Show Mystery. By Kathryn Kenny. Copyright 1984. Lists 39 Trixies inside. Barcode on back. (SHOWN w/ #36 BUT ONLY #37 available for purchase with this cart button at right!) Has very mild wear! Price on front cover marked out.

$55.00 TB37

The Red Trailer Mystery by Julie Campbell. Has some price sticker residue on cover, mild edge/cover wear. Pages inside fine, no writing. Back cover has some red marks/soil. Overall ok.

UK Dean & Sons Ltd hardcover edition! Neat UK hardcover style which features the color/cover image of the beige paperbacks.

TBUKRED $9.99

#1 Silver Wings for Vicki. By Helen Wells. A Vicki Barr picture cover! If you want to try the Vicki Barr series, here's your chance to start with volume 1! Helen was author of the Cherry Ames series. Picture cover has edgewear/rubbing to edges/spine ends/extremities. No writing inside except for price in pencil. Bookplate on front left endpaper. Good binding. Lists to Flight 908 on back. Overall nice!

SALE! VICKIPC $6.99

SOLD!
#3 Cherry Ames Army Nurse. By Helen Wells. Copyright 1944. The dust jacket has some wear/ruffling/chipping/tears along edges, especially to top around spine and back cover top. Creas on cover. Tape (not aged) on underside of dust jacket where a tear is. Front flap lists to Mountaineer Nurse, back flap lists 6 Vicki Barr, back of dj lists 28 Nancy Drew books.

Book has some edgewear/rubbing to extremities, name inside plus price on front right endpaper. Some page edge soil. Binding good. Overall good.

$12.00 CADJ

4 Black Stallion Books. By Walter Farley. All are paperbacks--some have price stickers on the covers as shown. Titles: Black Stallion Returns, The Black Stallion's Filly, The Black Stallion's Ghost, and The Black Stallion Legend.

Most have some edgewear/rubbing to spine ends, some creasing--they've been read. Some have some page aging. A few have a name inside. Ghost has sticker inside, more wear than the other 3. Legend has a library sticker at bottom of spine. Overall good reading copies.

$3.00 BS4


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