I’ve examined the books listed below, this is a description of the books and some of the faults I detected (the list below does not preclude other faults the books have or may have but I missed).

#17 Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators in The Mystery of the Singing Serpent

1st edition?

tears, chips, frays, dirt, sticker, and rips on the covers and spine of the book,  cracked hinge between the inner back cover and inner back page, clear tape had been applied

copyright 1972

dirt/stain/mark page  61, 101, 110-111,115, 120, 143, 144,

 tears/rips/chips page

152 pages of text

No pages missing