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The Sleuth Shop: Vintage Girls' Series Books

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

UPDATED: December 30, 2009--Check back often, always adding new books!

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Vintage Girls' Series Books For Sale:

Abreviations 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 quanity of more than 1 when purchasing! Click on the thumbnail images below for larger pictures.


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.
BOBSPOSTER $5.00

(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

The Black Stallion and Satan. SOLD!

The Black Stallion's Filly by Walter Farley. Random House paperback--older style. . Aging pages. Name inside. Has edge/spine wear and rubbing, wear. Very mild creasing. Overall good.

BSSF $2.00

The Black Stallion Returns. SOLD!

The Black Stallion Returns. Later cover art--Weekly Reader Book--bottom right corner of cover notes that that this book is the original novel that the new film "The Return of the Black Stallion" is based. Slightly aging pages. Has mild edge wear. Overall good.

BSR $2.50

The Black Stallion Legend by Walter Farley. Alfred A. Knopf paperback. Price sticker on back cover. Some page aging. Pages slightly ruffled. Some edge/cover wear, overall ok.
BSL $1.50

The Mystery of the Midnight Marauder. SOLD!

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 $9.99

#31 The Mystery at Maypenny's. By Kathryn Kenny. Beige paperback but in YELLOW--different varient. 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

Set of 3 Trixie Belden Beige paperbacks published by Golden.

10 Marshland Mystery, 13 Cobbett's Island, 15 Mississippi. 15 and 10 have more cover soil/aging than 13. They all have a cover rub spot where price sticker was removed most likely. These are older editions--they don't have the bar code on the back cover.


TBPB $5.00

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.
TBPB2 $3.50

Trixie Belden - The Mystery of the Castaway Children, #21. Beige spine paperback by Kathryn Kenny. Has some wear/soil and cover price sticker residue. No barcode on back. Name inside. Lists 22 Trixies inside. Some page aging. Overall ok.
TBBP21 $3.00

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

The Mystery in Arizona by Julie Campbell. Has some price sticker residue on cover, mild edge/cover wear. Pages inside fine, no writing. Overall good.
TBUKAZ $9.99

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

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.
TBUKRED $9.99

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

The Mysterious Visitor by Julie Campbell. Mild edge/cover wear. Pages inside fine, no writing. Overall good.
TBUKVIS $9.99

This a great set of Trixie Belden library editions! They are all modeled after the style of the beige paperbacks. These are hardcovers. Each has the usual library wear/markings or removals, but pretty good shape overall! Some soil. Titles: 5 The Mystery Off Glen Road, 12 The Mystery of the Blinking Eye, 13 The Mystery on Cobbett's Island, and 15 The Mystery on the Mississippi.
TBLIBEDS $10.00

A Vicki Barr picture cover! If you want to try the Vicki Barr series, here's your chance to start with volume 1! Silver Wings for Vicki, #1 by Helen Wells, 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!
VICKIPC $9.99


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