The Hardy Boys #9: The Great Airport Mystery *** SCARCE TRUE 1ST PRINTING IN VERY RARE 1ST STATE ORIGINAL 1930A-1 DUST JACKET.*** OVERALL CONDITION: VG+/VG Published in 1930 by Grosset & Dunlap. 210 pages + publisher ads. In original red cloth boards. Jacket and frontispiece illustrated by Walter S. Rogers. This is the TRUE first edition, first printing (1930A-1) as indicated by meeting all points listed in the eighth edition of Carpentieris definitive guide on the Hardy Boys:he Book: 1930A-1 1. Original red cloth 2. Hardy Boys 1-9 3. Ted Scott Flying Stories 1-12 4. This isnt All ad 6. Hardy Boys 1-8 7. Ted Scott Flying Stories 1-11 8. Western Stories for Boys 1-9 9. The Outdoors Girls Series 1-19 10. The Rex Lee Flying Stories 1-6 11. The Radio Boys Series 1-12 12. The Famous Rover Boys Series 1-30 13. Gary Grayson Football Stories 1-7 & all 15 points of errata The dust jacket: 1930A-1 1. White spine with red shield 2. Dust jacket blind side ads 3. Front panel: Original first state cover art 4. Front flap: Hardy Boys #1-9 5. Rear flap: Ted Scott Flying Stories #1-11 6. Rear panel: X-Bar-X Boys #1-9 The book is in beautiful VERY GOOD+ to almost NEAR FINE condition for a 94-year-old childrens book! Colorful, unfaded red boards with sharp, bold lettering. Square spine with firm hinges and joints and tight pages. Light rubbing to extremities and spine. The always present age-toned page edges and pages. Quite clean boards with very few spots of light external soiling. Very light jacket offsetting to endpapers and a few spots of light foxing. Former gift inscription from a mother to her son dated 1930 (date of publication). A free endpaper is stamped Airport. Text block is clean with no writing, stickers, ex libris marks or dog-eared pages. A higher grade copy! The dust jacket is in VERY GOOD condition - unclipped with beautiful and colorful cover art. The dust jacket is one of the cleanest, least sun-toned examples Ive come across for these early white dust jacket Hard Boys novels (notorious for deep sun-darkening, fragility and proneness to soiling). The spine text and shield are still quite distinct. Rubbing with some light dust soiling and a few stains. Edge wear - chipping, creasing and a few small tears with about a 1 x 1 chip from top right of rear panel. A long vertical crease line on rear panel.Overall, a higher grade copy of this rare first printing in a first state original dust jacket. One of the nicest examples on the market! Book will ship Priority Mail - safely packaged and fully insured. I have bought and sold books and art on eBay for over a decade and have a 100% satisfaction rating. I am now selling on ABE Books. Im a collector first and know what it's like to receive items not matching the sellers descriptions or that were poorly packaged and damaged in transit. That is why I offer a 100% satisfaction, money back guarantee, and go to great lengths to accurately describe my rare, signed and collectible books and post pictures of the "actual book." I carefully package and ship your newly acquired treasure(s) and ship within 1 business day of receiving your order.
