Grosset and Dunlap.  Copyright 1939.  Print run Carpentieri-coded 1945A-12.  Cover art by Paul Laune.  Author was John Button, using the Stratemeyer "Dixon" pseudonym.

#18 in the series. Brown book in very good condition with orange Gretta endpapers, plain frontispiece.  Original 25 chapters. No internal book titles list.  Tanned but not brittle war-time paper (in effect through 1948). No writing.  Sturdy binding and hinges without tracking. Excellent corners.

Yellow spine and "The Hardy Boys" supra-title in script. Very nice dust jacket with very minor edgewear, nice color retention despite some light surface abrasion.  "PCJ" and "110-150" on front flap. Front flap last title is five volumes later, The Melted Coins.  Rear flap lists to Don Winslow #4 Saves the Secret Formula. Rear of jacket lists 26 aviation titles.

Book is now protected in removable mylar covering.

(RHB-18)