The Clue of the Tapping Heels: Nancy Drew Mystery Stories

Grosset & Dunlap, 1939-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover with DJ, (Dust Jacket A, Format II per AXE) 1939 (Farah 1940B-5). [Format 5] Grosset & Dunlap 214 pages. Very Good, in a VG DJ. Minor shelf/edge wear to original blue cloth boards with orange silhouette of Nancy Drew on front cover and orange titles on spine - corners sharp. Only flaw is light mottling to spine cloth (very common to this cloth). Orange silhouette endpapers and lightly faded orange topstain. Glossy frontispiece. Minor shelf/edge wear and dust soiling to original DJ that still has vibrant colors - DJ now in mylar. Previous owner name at top of FFEP and a label on the inside front cover. 25 chapters. (Farah 1940B-5). [Format 5] 16th title in the series. Dust Jacket A, Format II per AXE. DJ illustration by Russell Tandy. Front DJ flap reads 50/50 at top and 100/150 at bottom. Orange and white silhouette endpapers. This is the 16th book in a series of 56. Per AXE, this is binding variant II with good paper, orange and white endpapers and glossy frontispiece. DJ is Variant A. (Farah 1940B-5). [Format 5]. See my photos to come. Nancy Drew is a fictional character who appears in several mystery book series as a teenage amateur sleuth. The books are ghostwritten by a number of authors and published under the collective pseudonym Carolyn Keene. Created by publisher Edward Stratemeyer as the female counterpart to his Hardy Boys series, the character first appeared in 1930 in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series, which lasted until 2003 and consists of 175 novels. (Farah 1940B-5). [Format 5]. Very handsome thick pre-war hardcover in the original DJ. LOC SSS-12