I am selling my entire collection of Hardy Boys book as well as some other books in my collection. The Hardy Boys collection consists of over 220 different books and 1 or 2 duplicates. The collection includes early books from the 1920s through the later picture cover books of the 60's and 70's and all in between. There are 1st editions, harder to find variations and examples of all the different dust jacket art, spine types, book boards and end papers and even story revisions. Information on each book that I provide comes mostly from the fine guide, Hardy and Hardy Investigations 6th edition by Tony Carpentieri and Paul Mular. If you are looking for a certain book for your collection or just readers for your kids or grandkids, check my listing periodically because it will take some time to get all these listed and I will do it randomly. All my jacketed books are protected by Mylar, done by me or a previous owner. I'll combine shipping if requested.
This is a white spine edition of the 6th book in the Hardy Boys series, The Shore Road Mystery. It is the 18th printing of this title, printed in 1937 and has a brown book with dark brown lettering and orange Gretta endpapers, (J Clemens Gretta). The cover art and frontispiece are done by W S Rogers.
The dust jacket is in fairly nice condition, with the front having some edgewear on top with a couple of sizeable nicks and some edgewear on the bottom with a crease. The spine has small paper loss on the bottom and a larger chip missing on the top. The red shield is faded a little but still wholly visible. The back also has some edgewear on top but that is all. The book is in excellent condition with only a bit of loss of gloss here and there on both back and front. The EP's are unmarked but both back and front have a line of paper remains vertically stuck to the covers where the dust jacket edges were apparently pasted to the EP's. The paper appears to have been removed from the back of the dust jacket flaps but the flaps remain intact and the outsides remain undamaged. The binding is tight with no tears or separation.
H&H designates this book as The Shore Road Mystery 1937B-18