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214, [6] ad pp. Glossy frontispiece by Walter S. Rogers. 7¼x4¾, red cloth with gold and black lettering, color pictorial jacket, custom cloth slipcase. First Edition, First Printing.

The first book in the Hardy Boys series. Note the jacket front flap lists the first three Hardy Boys titles because all three were copyrighted on the same day in 1927. First printing notes: Verso of jacket lists the Tom Swift books #1-30, among other children's series; first advertisement at rear of volume lists Tom Swift books #1-29. Carpentieri & Mular p.61 (5th).