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From 1962 until 1968 the back cover featured at the top right a picture of Nancy adapted from
the second cover art, by Bill Gillies, to volume #6, The Secret of Red Gate Farm.
It is not the same image, however, as Red Gate Farm's cover art. The picture of
Nancy on Red
Gate Farm has her mouth slightly open. The image used on the back covers has it closed. The
image is also a reverse. The image has Nancy looking left when on the cover of
Red Gate Farm
she is looking right.
Volume #'s 1-45 have this feature.
From 1969 until the mid 1980's, the back cover image in the right upper corner was changed to
a scene of the cover art to volume #44,
The Clue in the Crossword Cipher by Rudy Nappi.
This featured Nancy trying to decipher a cipher with her trusty magnifying glass!
Volume #'s 1-56 have this feature.
Some of the volumes beginning around 1975 were produced with yellow bands along the top of the
front cover. These volumes were produced this way until the later glossy flashlight pcs came
out. Other volumes did not have the yellow band added to the covers.
Interesting to note, the picture at left of volume #17, The Mystery of the Brass-Bound
Trunk, is the 2nd cover art by Rudy Nappi. It was produced with the yellow band, and then
when the 3rd cover art, also by Rudy Nappi came out, the yellow band was not continued onto that
cover. The only other volume that was produced with the yellow band that was dropped when a
newer 3rd cover art came out was volume #24, The Clue in the Old Album.
These were two
books that were revised later than most had been revised.
Most of the volumes that were produced with the yellow band were 2nd or 3rd cover art.
The following chart notes which volumes were produced with a yellow band:
Picture Cover Types: Volumes:
With Yellow Band #'s 4, 6-7, 10, 17, 24-25, 28-29, 35-40, 42, 45
Without Yellow Band #'s 1-56
The glossy picture cover editions, which can still be purchased in this format in local
bookshops or online at Barnes & Noble or Amazon.com, came out in the mid-1980's.
These have a yellow band for every volume across the top of the cover and a flashlight
highlighting the volume number. They have glossy boards as opposed to the earlier vintage
matte style picture
covers. They list the first six books of the series on the back cover and a little blurb about the Nancy Drew® series. The spine has a flashlight graphic at the top, the title, the author, the volume number, and the publisher Grosset & Dunlap. When these first came out circa 1987, they had the double oval endpapers. Subsequent printings have blank endpapers--kind of a return to the beginning back in 1930 when the endpapers on the first few volumes were blank!
