Harold Hill printed on book spine indicates this is the original printing. A clean tight copy of 224 pgs, Thick Turquoise Green Cloth WITH SILHOUETTE Nancy with Spyglass word Harold Hill on Spine Cvr, Interior Nice tight Clean Light Wear Fox,, NO ADS IN Back, Contents clean and tight. HARDBACK NODJ, Stated 1ST BRITISH Printing 1954, 1st UK Edition, Pre Series List Thru Clue Velvet Mask has some Red check Marks by titles, VG/VG-, NOJACKET, AS-IS, Hardback in publisher green cloth boards Stamped In Black Text has Slight Nick Top edge & small ever so slight Cvr Bow.,with illustrated digger endpapers & no inscriptions. I have a number of other hardcover Nancy Drew books up for sale.

Overall a N-FINE book in FINE-/N-FINE condition dust jacket (not price clipped) of a Nancy Drew hardcover printing of the revised or 2nd dust jacket artwork WITH VARIANT 'THIS VOLUME FREE' DUST JACKET. Dust Jacket has no chipping, tearing or creasing, virtually no wear to spine tips or to front flap crease, no wear to left/right on spine, no edge wear, no soiling or staining, almost no dust rubbing to rear panel, no spine sun fading.

Lists: Dust Jacket Front Flap: Golden Pavilion Dust Jacket Rear Flap: Vicki Barr - Gold Coin Dust Jacket Back Cover: Dana Girls - Swiss Chalet Book front lists: Golden Pavilion & Dana Girls - Swiss Chalet Book has no creased page corners from prior reading, black top stain is perfect without fading or drop spots, no foxing to outer page edges (hint of dust soiling/age darkening only), endpapers are clean and free from any tape residue, no tearing or splitting of page block from internal hinges, no former owner's markings or used bookseller stamps/stickers inside, almost none of the usual shelf wear rubbing to bottom board edges, no wear to board corners or spine tips, no age darkening to outer page edges, no soiling or staining to boards, no color wear or surface color tears to boards, no bumped board corners. NANCY DREW MYSTERY STORIES #2 - THE HIDDEN STAIRCASE by CAROLYN KEENE (pen name of Mildred Wirt Benson), published by Grosset & Dunlap, copyright 1959, 1959C-81 printing per Farah (1st printing of the revised 20 chapter text), blue 'multi-picturer' endpapers, tweed 'cloth' boards with dark blue lettering, second or 'revised' dust jacket cover art by Bill Gillies (also referred to as 'wraparound' art as the front cover illustration wraps onto the spine - as distinguished from the original 'white spine' cover art), 100100 price on DJ front flap, 'THIS VOLUME FREE' VARIANT DUST JACKET.

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