Nancy Drew 30 The Clue of the Velvet Mask and similar items

Grosset Dunlap. Copyright 1953. Print run 1959D-21. Original 25-chapter text. It is valued in the most recent Farah's Guide at a $36.00 value when both book and jacket are in "very good" condition. #30 in the series. Author was Mildred A. Wirt Benson writing under the Stratemeyer Syndicate house pseudonym "Carolyn Keene." Very good book with some spine sunning (see second picture). Prior author name/addresses in ink on blank page following the front free endpaper. Titles are underlined on the pre-text titles page. Beyond that, no other writing or marking. Good hinges. Discolored page block (see third picture). Lovely collectible blue/white multipictorial endpapers. Good dust jacket with some chipping, wear at corners, most serious at jacket spine top and bottom, and there is a sticker scar on the left upper corner of the jacket rear. Front flap lists to Nancy Drew Pavilion, rear flap lists to Vicki Barr Gold Coin, and the jacket rear lists to Dana Girls Haunted Lagoon. Now protected in removable mylar covering. ND30rg