Title: The Tower Treasure. Author: Dixon, Franklin W. Place: New York Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap Date: [1927] Description: 214, [6] ad pp. Glossy frontispiece by Walter S. Rogers. 7¼x4¾, red cloth with gold and black lettering, color pictorial jacket, custom cloth slipcase. First Edition, First Printing. The first book in the Hardy Boys series. Note the jacket front flap lists the first three Hardy Boys titles because all three were copyrighted on the same day in 1927. First printing notes: Verso of jacket lists the Tom Swift books #1-30, among other children's series; first advertisement at rear of volume lists Tom Swift books #1-29. Carpentieri & Mular p.61 (5th). Lot Amendments Condition: Jacket chipped, some short tears, three of which are repaired with clear tape on verso; edge wear to volume, bookplate on front pastedown; very good. Item number: 196686
Title: The Tower Treasure. Author: Dixon, Franklin W. Place: New York Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap Date: [1927] Description: 214, [6] ad pp. Glossy frontispiece by Walter S. Rogers. 7¼x4¾, red cloth with gold and black lettering, color pictorial jacket, custom cloth slipcase. First Edition, First Printing. The first book in the Hardy Boys series. Note the jacket front flap lists the first three Hardy Boys titles because all three were copyrighted on the same day in 1927. First printing notes: Verso of jacket lists the Tom Swift books #1-30, among other children's series; first advertisement at rear of volume lists Tom Swift books #1-29. Carpentieri & Mular p.61 (5th). Lot Amendments Condition: Jacket chipped, some short tears, three of which are repaired with clear tape on verso; edge wear to volume, bookplate on front pastedown; very good. Item number: 196686
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