The Short-Wave Mystery.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1945]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Russell H. Tandy. Small 8vo. Tan pebble-grain cloth with brown lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. vi, 217pp. Frontispiece, orange pictorial Gretta endpapers. Very good/very good. Two 2" archivally closed separations on verso of otherwise bright and lovely jacket with no edgewear; light 1945 dated ownership signature on front flyleaf. Item #43493
Quite tight and equally nice first edition of #24 in the popular "Hardy Boys" series. A mixed-state first edition, with front dust jacket flap listing up to #23 and rear flap citing seven "Lone Ranger" titles (Carpintieri 1945A-1) and book without wartime notice and with dashed on pp. 57 and 65 (Carpintieri 1945B-2). A sharp, handsome copy.
Price: $175.00