Tower Treasure
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition of the first Hardy Boys detective novel, the forerunning inaugurator of what was, for 30 years, the most popular series of American young adult fiction, and remains a societal marque, the series still selling a million copies a year. Carpentieri & Mular’s format 1, with every 1st state binding, dustjacket, and text point including a complete “t” on page 31, line 12, and correct ads on the jacket’s verso. Spine slightly faded, one crease, a small spot to the upper edges of the ads and rear endpaper, still very good in a dustjacket with the spine unevenly faded to tan, little edge chips, tears, and rubs, but very good, never repaired, and scarce. ABPC lists one copy in a real jacket (chipped and repaired) sold at auction since 1975 (14 years ago), and we found 2 more that ABPC missed, a reminder that while ABPC has been a trusty view it is not perfect, and we augment it when we know. Ref: Carpenrieri & Mular, page 61. See: Leslie McFarlane, Ghost of the Hardy Boys, pages 65–76. Very good / very good. Item #729
Our dustjacket is finer than other Tower Treasure jackets that are called very good and some that are called fine, though there have been few for comparison, and we have priced it like a barely interesting postmodern 1st edition that many readers would say is an insult to ink and paper. And as to postmodernism generally; it has gone on far too long, its defining traits never meant as much as its adherents proposed (every generation thinks they have redefined truth), and we are over–ready for the new modern (we submit that 20th century is now an indivisible cluster, 21st century is the new modern, and the new postmodern awaits).
Price:
$5,500.00