The Bobbsey Twins' Own Little Ferryboat

New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good. 1956. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and was issued (thus) , without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally, clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends and corners of the book covers, along with some ground in dirt to the front cover. Both the bottom and foredges of the text block have darkening / toning. The reverse of the rear endpaper has a couple of spots of foxing. The text pages, are mostly clean and bright. "In 1960, the Stratemeyer syndicate, rewrote most of the older volumes, many of which became almost unrecognizable in the process. This was concurrent with the, release of a new edition of the series, with picture covers, no, dust jackets, and a lavender spine and back cover (replacing, earlier various green bindings). Many of the cover paintings, were dust-jacket paintings added in the 1950s (for earlier, versions, a single common dust-jacket painting was used, throughout an edition) , but most were new with the "purple", edition. In all, twenty were completely rewritten, all but two, with modernized titles, while sixteen were never released in, this edition, evidently deemed to be dated beyond repair. ", (from Wikipedia) .