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Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, New York, 1927, 212 pages + 8 pages of ads. Illustrated by Walter S. Rogers. Tan cloth with brown lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket with white spine, frontispiece, and orange boy in tree endpapers by Gretta. Top edge of pages died blue. Copyright page cites first three titles while ad at rear lists to 12th title (published 1933) and front jacket flap lists to 11th title (published 1932). According to Carpentieri and Mular ((Seventh edition, 2016), this volume was published in 1933 and is the 11th printing of the First Edition (1933B-11). Condition: Very Good in a Very Good+ DJ. Top and bottom of spine slightly bumped. Slight damage and stain to the top of pages 206-212 (see photo). Foxing on page edges. DJ has some wear on edges. DJ spine sunned such that the shield can only be seen with a bright light holding the book at a certain angle with my reading glasses on. Overall a beautiful, tight and clean early printing of the 2nd volume in the popular "Hardy Boys" series. In March 2021 I added early editions of nine volumes on AbeBooks (#2,4,6,7,8,10, 12,14, and 15).

Frank and Joe investigate a mysterious old mansion said to hide a secret smuggling operation.