Danny Dunn And the Swamp Monster

New York: McGraw-Hill / Weekly Reader. Very Good+. 1971. Book Club Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0070705380 . B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked gift notation on the front pastedown page. " The stories are set in the fictional American town of Midston. The plots feature characters who are interested in science and mathematics. Abrashkin died in 1960, after publication of the fifth book. Williams, however, insisted on Abrashkin being given co-author credit on the subsequent ten books as well, since he had been instrumental in constructing the series. Ezra Jack Keats illustrated the first four novels in the series. Although the exact location of Midston is not given, the authors wrote that a famed American of colonial times visited the town (when it was known as Middestown) , implying Midston is somewhere in the original 13 states. In the book Danny Dunn and the Heat Ray, reference is made to US Route 1 and US Route 2 being located near Midston, and those roads meet only at Houlton, Maine. "(from Wikipedia) .