The books all have plain paper frontispiece illustrations with no additional illustrations and are about 1 inch thick. Nancy Drew #1-23 printed during early 1946 have a dark blue cover with an orange silhouette and orange silhouette endpapers. Beginning in 1942, the books were printed with very poor quality paper that has deeply yellowed or turned brown.Īt left, book and endpapers style for #1-22 printed from 1941 to 1945.ĭust jacket style for #1-22 printed between 19. The books are about 1 1/4 inches thick in 1941 and reduce to about 1 inch thick by 1945. The dust jackets have white spines with a blue spine symbol in the center of the spine. None of these books have any additional illustrations. All copies of #18-22 have a plain paper frontispiece. #1-17 have a glossy frontispiece from 1941 to 1943 and a plain paper frontispiece from 1943 to 1945. All of the books have orange silhouette endpapers and a frontispiece illustration. Nancy Drew #1-22 printed from 1941 to 1945 have blue covers with an orange silhouette in the center of the front cover. The books are approximately 1 1/4 inches thick and have good quality paper.Īt left, book and endpapers style for #1-18 printed from 1938 to 1941.ĭust jacket style for #1-18 printed from 1938 to 1941 The dust jackets have white spines with no spine symbol. #18 The Mystery at the Moss-Covered Mansion has a plain paper frontispiece illustration and no additional illustrations. #1-17 have a glossy frontispiece illustration and no additional illustrations. All of the books have orange silhouette endpapers. Nancy Drew #1-18 printed from 1938 to 1941 have blue covers with an orange silhouette in the center of the front cover. The books are approximately 1 1/4 inches thick and have good quality paper.Īt left, book and endpapers style for #1-13 printed from 1932 to 1937.ĭust jacket style for #1-13 printed from 1932 to 1937 One glossy illustration occurs before the title page, and the remaining three are scattered throughout the text of the book. The books have orange silhouette endpapers and four glossy internal illustrations. Nancy Drew #1-13 printed from 1932 to 1937 have blue covers with an orange silhouette in the center of the front cover. The books are approximately 1 1/4 inches thick and have good quality paper.ĭust jacket style for #1-7 printed from 1930 to 1932

The books have blank endpapers, and four glossy internal illustrations.

Nancy Drew #1-7 printed from 1930 to 1932 are blue cloth books with no silhouette in the center of the front cover. If a list of titles is present on the copyright page, it will not help because that list was not updated regularly.Ĭlick here for a list of Nancy Drew titles and their publication dates. When a dust jacket is not present, find the last title listed inside the book on either a pre-text or a post-text list. On the dust jacket front flap seen at the right, the last Nancy Drew book is The Haunted Showboat, which indicates that the book was printed in 1957, the year of publication for The Haunted Showboat. For instance, on the dust jacket front flap seen at the left, the last Nancy Drew book is The Bungalow Mystery, which indicates that the book was printed in 1930, the year of publication for The Bungalow Mystery. The copyright year for the last title on the list is the year the book was printed. If the Nancy Drew book has a dust jacket, the list of titles on the jacket will reveal the year that the book was printed. It is aimed at the beginning collector and does not include some of the more obscure variations. This is an overview of the different styles of the original Nancy Drew hardcover books from #1 through #56 that have been issued over the years by Grosset and Dunlap. Nancy Drew - A Guide to the Grosset and Dunlap EditionsĪ Guide to the Grosset and Dunlap Editions

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