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The Sleuth Shop: Vintage Nancy Drew® Books
UPDATED: May 14, 2008: New Books Added Some Price Reductions!
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Vintage Nancy Drew® 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.
Divided into categories below: Guides and Books on Nancy, Books with Dust Jackets, Blue Hardbacks, No Dust Jackets, Yellow Spine Picture Covers, Book Club Editions, and Paperbacks & Misc. Scroll down to see each type for sale.
Guides and Books on Nancy:
Nothing In This Category Right Now...
Books with Dust Jackets:
The Hidden Staircase by Carolyn Keene. NDRARE2 $550.00 SOLD! |
Blue Hardbacks, No Dust Jacket:
Nothing in this category right now...
Yellow Spine Picture Covers:
#5, The Secret at Shadow Ranch. YSPC. 2nd yspc printing, per Farah's 12th guide. Features the blackened suggested retail prie
box on the cover--telltale sign for a 2nd printing for this title. Original text by Mildred A. Wirt Benson, frontispiece by
Russell H. Tandy. 2nd cover art by Bill Gillies.
(**BONUS: Used in the opening montage scene for the new Warner Brothers Nancy Drew movie! Inside is the tag used to ID the book as mine for the large collection of books they assembled from various sources. I will include a little certificate attesting to the fact that this book was used from my collection in the opening book sequence.)
Spine is slightly cocked. Edgewear
and rubbing to the extremities. Some mild soil. Lists to Fire Dragon on back.
No writing inside. Front endpapers are cracking, slight crackline at back eps. Blue multi pic 2 endpapers. Overall ok-fi0ne.
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The Mystery of the 99 Steps. SOLD!
The Spider Sapphire Mystery. YSPC. Edgewear. Double Oval Eps. Good binding, mild back cover soil/shelf wear, no writing.
Lists on back to: Crocodile Island. Overall good.
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Book Club Editions:
The Following Tall Twins--twin thriller book club editions--were a variant (rarer) of the regular twin thrillers--they were taller! These are much harder to find and worth more.
Set: #7 The Clue in the Diary and #8 Nancy's Mysterious Letter. SOLD!
Set: #15 The Haunted Bridge and #16 The Clue of the Tapping Heels. Has some edgewear and rubbing. Some back cover soil and some
closed page edge soil. Overall good.
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The Following Tall Twin is one of the twin thriller book club editions--which were a variant (rarer) of the regular twin thrillers--they were taller! These are much harder to find and worth more.
Set: #3 The Bungalow Mystery and #4 The Mystery at Lilac Inn. Spine is cocked. Edgewear and rubbing to extremities. Some ink-topped page bleed at tips of some pages. Inside ok. Some mild cover soil. Overall fine.
(**BONUS: Used in the opening montage scene for the new Warner Brothers Nancy Drew
movie! Inside is the tag used to ID the book as mine for the large collection of books they assembled from various sources. I will
include a little certificate attesting to the fact that this book was used from my collection in the opening book sequence.)
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#2 The Hidden Staircase. Book Club Edition. Dust jacket--protected in Mylar. A former library edition with the usual markings/wear/tear. Overall ok.
ND2BCE $1.00 |
Paperbacks & Misc.:
#57 The Triple Hoax. SOLD!
Nancy Drew Ghost Stories: Six Haunting Mysteries. Minstrel paperback. Harder to find Ghost Stories version--smaller size
like the Files series paperbacks. Same art as Wanderer edition--1st art for this book. Some cover--price sticker residue.
Overall good shape, mild wear.
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The Triple Hoax. #57, 1st art cover. Wanderer paperback. Has edgwear/creasing/spine wear, spine slightly leans--cover edge tear. First printing. Some page edgewear/soil, names inside. Overall fair.
NDPB57 $1.00
The Triple Hoax. #57, 3rd art cover. Minstrel paperback. First Minstrel books printing. Some edgewear/spine wear. Not too bad. Overall good.
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The Flying Saucer Mystery. #58, 1st art cover. Wanderer paperback. 1st printing. Has some edgewear and corner creases--some wear to spine, back cover rubs/shelf type wear. Overall fine.
NDPB58 $2.00
The Flying Saucer Mystery. #58, 3rd art cover. Minstrel paperback. Has some edgewear and corner creases--some wear to spine, back cover rubs/shelf type wear. Couple of pages from back cover--and back of back cover--all at top have slash mark, as if cut. Can see glue inside back cover at binding where binding glued. Overall OK.
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The Greek Symbol Mystery. #60, 1st art cover. Wanderer paperback. Has very little wear. Dog-eared page. Has ad inside back for the The Official Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys Fan Club. 2nd printing. No writing. Very good shape!
NDPB60 $4.00 SOLD!
The Swami's Ring. #61, 1st art cover. Wanderer paperback. Some edge/spine wear and corner creases. First printing. Name inside. Overall good.
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Race Against Time. #66--SOLD!
The Sinister Omen. #67, 1st cover art. Wanderer paperback. Has very mild wear/creases. Has ad inside back for the The Official Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys Fan Club. 1st printing. No writing. Very good shape!
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The Elusive Heiress. #68, 1st cover art. Wanderer paperback. Some edge/spine wear and corner creases. First printing. Name inside. Slight crack of binding at pages 118-119, but no major separation. Some pages inside around edges have some ink-spots, as if this happened in printing--? Not sure. Has ad inside back for the The Official Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys Fan Club. Overall fair.
NDPB68 $2.00 The Broken Anchor. #70, 1st cover art. SOLD! |
#73, Enemy Match. 2nd cover art. Minstrel paperback. Has some wear.
Binding ok, but can see a bit of aged binding glue at front and back inside covers in crease. Overall good.
NDPB732a $3.00 The Emerald-Eyed Cat Mystery. SOLD! |
#122 The Message in the Haunted Mansion--SOLD!
#128 The Treasure in the Royal Tower |
Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys: The Missing Money Mystery. A you plot the action book--like a choose your own adventure. Former school library book--has spine sticker, but nothing inside to denote school book. Has some edgewear and mild creases. Overall good--2nd printing.
NDPBBEAD6 $4.00
#12 The Puppy Problem--Nancy Drew Notebooks. Has some mild edgewear--binding pull in part after title list inside--not too bad, a tiny bit of glue will fix it right back up. Small dent in back cover. Overall fine.
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Nancy Drew Notebooks: The Ice Cream Scoop. Scholastic edition. Some edgewear--overall good.
NDNB6 $2.00 Nancy Drew Girl Detective: #16 Dangerous Plays. SOLD! |
Nancy Drew Files: #121 Natural Enemies.
NDF121 $2.00 Nancy Drew Files: #122 Strange Memories. SOLD! |
Nancy Drew Files: Vanishing Act. Hardcover Especially For Girls book club edition. Mild wear. 1st printing. Very good shape.
NDHCFVANISH $5.50
Nancy Drew Files: Deep Secrets. Hardcover Especially For Girls book club edition. Mild wear. Some cover soil. 1st printing.
Good shape.
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Smithmark edition--3-in-one, hardcover with dust jacket. Features 1st 3 books: Old Clock, Hidden Staircase, Bungalow Mystery.
Dust jacket has some wear, as does book. Some pages inside book ruffled from moisture/water stain. Bright red boards, neat yellow/red
endpapers of internal illustration scenes from the 3 volumes inside.
(**BONUS: Used in the opening montage scene for the new Warner Brothers Nancy Drew
movie! Inside is the tag used to ID the book as mine for the large collection of books they assembled from various sources. I will
include a little certificate attesting to the fact that this book was used from my collection in the opening book sequence.)
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River Heights PB #1 Love Times Three
2nd Prtg, OOP, good shape. NDRH1 $1.00
River Heights PB #15 Friends and Rivals
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