The Secret of Wildcat Swamp

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1952. Hardcover. Good/Good. Bill Gillies. Dust jacket has edge wear and closed tears; chips on spine; now in new removable protective cover. Tan tweed boards with brown multi-scene end papers. Prior owner's bookplate on front paste down. Frontispiece by Roy Pellington printed on plain paper. Pages are clean and unmarked. Grosset and Dunlap hard cover with dust jacket, 1952 edition but 1960 printing, Hardy Boys #31, 212 pages, cover art by Bill Gillies. 8vo (7.5"" x 5"") This is the original 25 chapter text by William Hallstead, Harriet Adams, William Dougherty writing as Franklin W. Dixon. In 1969 the novel was revised and shortened by Priscilla Baker-Carr, and the cover art was changed. 1960 printing because list of Hardy Boys novels on front flap goes to The Mystery of the Chinese Junk, first published in 1960; the list of Rick Brant novels on rear flap goes to The Blue Ghost Mystery, first published in 1960; and the list of Tom Swift, Jr. novels on the dust jacket rear goes to Tom Swift and His Spectromarine Selector, first published in 1960.