Book and dust jacket is replica of the 1937 original printing including gloss frontispiece illustration, $14.95 price on DJ front flap. NANCY DREW MYSTERY STORIES #15 - THE HAUNTED BRIDGE by CAROLYN KEENE (pen name of Mildred Wirt Benson), published by Applewood Books, copyright 1937 (original 25 chapters), this edition published 2000, First Printing (complete 10 - 1 numberline on copyright page), white endpapers, blue cloth boards with orange lettering to spine and front board, cover art by Russell Tandy. THE PHOTO IS A STOCK IMAGE - NOT A PHOTO OF THIS COPY !!. Externally, it has lightly bumped bottom corners and negligible soiling and rates VERY GOOD +.The jacket like most, shows moderate corner wear at all corners, and thus grades VERY GOOD -, BUT presents very nicely in a clear archival protector. flap, as well as the list on the Copyright page, both end with this Title & 5.)Wide spine unlike the thin spines on reprints in the 1940's on. This copy is a FIRST EDITION with the requisite points: 1.)Blue Boards with orange Nancy on front board, 2.)Orange & white Nancy with Spyglass on the front & rear Endpapers, 3.)One glossy Frontispiece opposite Title page, 4.)Lists of Nancy Drew books on the front D.J. Tandy, and is #15 in the wildly popular NANCY DREW series of 64 books, that have been enjoyed by young women for 75 years.
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