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eBay Listings - Newport Vintage Books - The Hardy Boys #1 Tower Treasure Dustjacket

The Hardy Boys - The Tower Treasure - #1

Digitally Remastered Dustjacket Only [Book is NOT included]

Franklin W. Dixon (Walter S. Rogers Artwork)

High Quality Digitally Remastered Laser Reproduction of Original Dustjacket

This dustjacket corresponds to the 1927 A-1 First Printing per Hardy & Hardy Investigations -- Carpentieri & Mular
This dustjacket was paired with the first 4 red books issued from 1927 to 1929. It is sized to fit all thick printings issued from 1927 to 1941.
The same Walter S. Rogers dustjacket artwork was used from 1927 to 1944.
[The dustjacket is printed on one side only -- no title listings on verso (reverse side).].

We will be offering a selection of several digitally remastered dustjackets from the Hardy Boys series in our eBay listings !!

Here is a nice opportunity to enjoy the original artwork while saving on the cost of an original dustjacket.

See my listings for more -- several different classic juvenile series & mystery jackets available.

All digitally remastered dustjackets are shipped in a removable,
Brodart or Demco archival dustjacket protector, and ready to place on your book.

Due to the scarcity of this dustjacket, I have added an embossed digital watermark to these images to avoid unauthorized duplication.
The embossed watermark will NOT appear over the artwork on the front panel.
The counter-stamps identifying this as a reproduction WILL appear discretely on the flaps only.

About Postage:

Combined shipping:
Dustjackets are shipped boxed & wrapped via USPS Ground Advantage [new version of First Class Parcel].
Shipping for 1 or 2 remastered dustjackets is $4.00.
3 or 4 dustjackets ship for an additional 50c, $4.50
5 or 6 dustjackets ship for an additional 50c, $5.00
More than 6 dustjackets, please request shipping quote.
At checkout, buyer may request invoice or pay directly, and any extra postage charged at eBay checkout will be refunded.

About
Dustjackets:

The dustjacket offered in this auction is digitally scanned from a high quality original. The master is then carefully restored to remove any minor imperfections. This significantly enhances the eye appeal rather than just offering a color photocopy with flaws. Great care is taken to painstakingly retouch these images with emphasis on maintaining the full scope of the original artwork and preserving the texture and granularity of the original. The dustjacket is then printed on an industrial quality machine which far exceeds the image quality possible on any inkjet printer, and produces sharper, crisper images and much better color definition (tone, hue & saturation) with pleasing results.

About
Title:

Here is another exciting mystery tale, Frank and Joe Hardy and their chums must outwit criminals at every turn.
A dying criminal confessed that his loot had been secreted "in the tower" It remained for the Hardy Boys to make an astonishing discover that cleared up the mystery.

About
Formats::

The original Hardy Boys series comprised 40 volumes issued in dustjackets from 1927 to 1961. In 1962, beginning with volume #41, the books were issued in picture cover editions [no dustjackets].
There are a few format changes which are useful to collectors in identifying Hardy Boys printings:

Binding color: Red (1-11) 1927-32; Thick Brown (1-21) 1932-41

White Spine Dustjackets: 1-12; Thick Yellow Spine Dustjackets 1-21

About
Author:

Franklin Dixon was a pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for The Hardy Boys and the Ted Scott Flying Adventures.
The early Hardy Boys books were actually written by Canadian journalist Leslie McFarlane. McFarlane wrote the first 17 Hardy Boys titles, plus 5 additional titles up to The Phantom Freighter (1947).